How Did The Porfiriato Mexican Americans

Under the period known as the Porfiriato (1876-1911), Mexico grew economically but it not developed and the majority of Mexicans were left behind. During the Porfiriato Mexico would prosper like it had never before. The elite in Mexico were the hacendados, who saw the Indians as an impediment for progress. For example, a científico named Francisco Bulnes believed that the Indians were sullenly intractable and hopelessly inferior who responded only to the logic of force than to reason. During this period the elite got richer at the expense of the lower class living in the countryside. As railroads were constructed the land value increased and hacendados took the opportunity to push small owners from the land. In addition, the government would seizure private and communal lands when the Indians could not prove
As their land was being taken away, most people were force to work for hacendados working from sunrise to sunset seven days a week. They lived in deteriorating conditions their house was a miserable, one room, floorless, windowless abode shacks. The rich hacendados had full control of their workers. The workers were treated like slaves in some areas.
Mexico prosper at the expense of economic development and political liberalism. During the porfiriato Mexicans would lose to the foreigners. Díaz and the cintíficos favor foreign trade for economic development and did everything in their power to archive their goals. In the process to modernization the lower class people suffer from injustice. For example, the land that was used for production for consumption goods was put into production for export crops. Due to this Mexican could not longer produce basic crops like corn and beans which then had to be imported from the United States putting the lower class at a deeper disadvantage, because the price of the commodity increased. In addition, wages stagnated and more people inter poverty. The wages for agricultural workers