The Mexican Revolution, which began on November 20, 1910, was the way in which the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz ended, but it was also a political movement that had mainly economic causes and consequences.
One of the causes for this conflict to break out was that, during the government of Porfirio Díaz, 40% of the territory was owned by only 840 landowners. The latifundio was so excessive that sometimes a single person owned an extension of land greater than the surface of several European countries.
Under the Porfirista dictatorship, the only thing that mattered was material growth, giving additional privileges to foreign capitalists and putting aside the welfare of the workers. This is how the American and English companies appropriated the national wealth.
Peasant poverty was another reason for Francisco I. Madero to lead this revolutionary movement. The workers earned 25 cents a day, while the owners sold them food and other basic necessities at triple what they earned, the landowners took the opportunity to indebt the peasant and then charge them with work.
In addition, the social classes were more marked than at present, in the highest ranks were the landowners, the political leaders, the members of the high clergy and the national and foreign businessmen, followed by the petty bourgeoisie and finally the peasants. and workers who lived in very poor conditions.
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