Mexico Part 1: A Liberal Democracy

I believe that Mexico can be considered a liberal democracy due to the far positive progression they have had throughout history. Mexico has progressed from being controlled under a dictatorship to a liberal democratic system. Democratization is when a country moves towards a democratic state and moves from a procedural to liberal democracy. Mexico has clearly been through a major change in their government system in that past 25 years which is how they were led into the liberal democratic system they are a part of now. Mexico has seen the most change in government when they changed from being controlled under a dictatorship into becoming a liberal democratic system. In the article, “Mexico Part 1: The Making of the Modern State”, it informs the readers that Mexico went through a moment in history known as “The Porfiriato”. This was a time in Mexican history where they were being controlled under the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. He gained his power by the military coup and
In the article, “Criminal Justice in Mexico”, we see that Mexico once had a terrible form of handling criminal justice, but after many years we can see a positive change. During Mexico’s rough years they would not handle criminal justice cases well by letting the guilty go free and the innocent people were often punished for the crime instead. The prisons in Mexico were beginning to overcrowd due to the way that they did not know how to handle many cases. After several years in making Mexico a better country the prisons began to drop by 70%. This is a large positive outcome in the way that Mexico’s government began to change into a liberal democracy. Mexico’s government began to ensure the rights the people who accused were observed before the trials. They also guaranteed the sentence was carried out correctly every time. This shows that Mexico has become much more of a liberal democracy as the years