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Ideal Era of PRI
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Lazaro Cardenas
Lazaro Cardenas promotes social justice in Mexico. Expropriated Mexican oil from American companies, split large farms of Northern Mexico into colectively owned Ejidos, and made state service compulsory to new doctors in order to improve health of rural areas in Mexico -
Nationalization of Mexican Oil Production
Cardenas expropriated Mexican oil from American companies. This gave the Mexican government a source of revenue for its social programs -
Manuel Avila Camacho
Camacho continues Cardenas' policies and creates the IMSS to insure urban workers. Pledged Mexican support of allies during WW2. Started the program of Import Subsidization Industrialization which included import quotas, protective tarrifs, tax exemptions, gov't credits/subsidies. Demanded that Mexicans own stock majority in all companies operating in Mexico. Stable currency, foreign investment, and low inflation. -
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Bracero Program Era
A program for Mexican farm workers to work in the United States for a temporary period of time. Saftey valve for booming Mexican population in 1940s. -
Miguel Aleman Valdes
Continues ISI programs. Enlists help of foreign and domestic capital to industrialize Mexico. ISI most associated with Aleman. Expansion of railroad and highway system. PRI control over politics and society solidified under Aleman. Government took control of labor unions. -
Adolofo Ruiz Cortines
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Railroad and Teacher Strikes
Members of the Revolutionary Teachers Movement (MRM), as well as the Worker Peasant Party of Mexico (POCM), protested against the government. They demanded better wages, and a democratization of their respective government-controlled unions. PRI starts to lose legitimacy after worker grievances are either marginally met or ignored outright. -
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
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