... centralist police state out of what was essentially a liberal and federalist Constitution. Effective suffrage? Non-existent. His judges, legislators, local officials, and army men were just that - his - or they were replaced by more compliant ones. His Rurales assured the landowners (who held ridiculously large hacienda estates) of docile and indebted peons. The servitude inflicted on these workers guaranteed perpetual misery with no better ... should not be one-sided. Instead of using guns to secure investments and property, how much better to use persuasion and mutual understanding. H...

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