Mexico

Mexico has many different climates, Mexico has deserts and tropical rainforests almost neighboring each other. Mexico also has sun scorched savannahs, mile high table lands, dry and arid canyons, winding jungle rivers, orchids filled with bromeliads, plains of cacti, meadows of alpine flowers, lush valleys rich with mangoes, papaya, melons, and sugarcane. Although they provide a lot of crops and fruit, most of Mexico is desert which makes farming difficult. Only a little over ten percent of Mexico’s land is actually good land for farming. Most of this ten percent comes from the Yucatan Peninsula because this is where almost all of Mexico’s plains come from. Only fifteen percent of Mexico is actually flat. Nearly three fourths of the country is above an elevation of 2,000 feet. Three almost impenetrable mountain ranges divide the country. In the west there is the Sierra Madre Occidental, Sonora lies in the North Central Plains of Mexico and in the east there is the Sierra Madre de Ser. These three mountain ranges create a Y-shape through the country. The nature of Mexico’s land does not make it easy to overcome, although the landscape is extraordinary and beautiful in many ways, it is also benign and forbidding. It is still unknown why man came to such a harsh landscape to conquer in the first place (Johnson 25; Gritzer 21).
The rich still ruled Mexico, so little was done to help the conditions for the common people after they got independence from Spain. Porfirio Diaz was elected president in 1876 and remained president until 1910. During his time as president foreign investment grew and a thriving middle class emerged. Things were not all good in Mexico during Diaz’s presidency though, under Diaz peasants and workers still lacked basic human rights (Irizarry 42; 53). This led to the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920. During the Mexican Revolution the sufferings of the poor became even worse and lasted until the early 1930’s which is when socialist values...