... for human habitation. A 1900 survey in Mexico City revealed 15,000 homeless families "16% of the population. I will not issue wholesale condemnation of Diaz,because he jumpstarted the economic machine of Mexico. He cannot be entirely faulted in his enormous encouragement of U.S. interests in the realms of mining, lumber, oil and similar resources. Hadn't he seen the growth of the ... , was a lawyer for big business, and had a dislike for Madero that was personal and mutual. Beyond his misadvising Washington about goings-on in Mexico, he constantly interfered in Mexican domestic politics,...

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