Mexican Eugenics

In 1883 a social movement called Eugenics was created by Francis Galton. This movement was created because they had a scientific theory that it will improve human race by selecting proper humans for breeding. This was based mostly on human’s heredity. Scientist will choose the proper “fit” people and encourage them to breed, while the non fit we were forced to be sterilized. Eugenics was a world wide policy, it went through out the Latin America, for example; Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Eugenics began after the Mexican revolution when the general population started developing diseases. Although Eugenics in Mexico had a different form than the U.S, it had the same base theory on how to improve humanity. It had a great impact on improving the Mexican people through education, public health, and in serve situation the forcefully sterilization. During the Mexican revolution of (1910-1917) Mexico lost a great amount of people during and after the revolution. The country lost five percent of its population due to diseases, violence and others just left to other countries. After the revolutions the people in Mexico were
According to the book “Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective” by Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette, the meeting was more focused on insisting the important of Eugenics for the society and state. They also focused on the education of mothers and overall populations. They believe that having sex education will prevent “unfit” children by eliminating sexual disease and alcoholism. They also included hygiene which is part of the public health. By improving hygiene, they built school playgrounds, offered classes to young women to teach them about prenatal care of unborn children through attention to the health of pregnant women and dispatched health visitors to poor neighborhoods to train future