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but as a secondary solution, restitution and land assignment. Thus, despite its shortcomings, the land redistribution constituted the basis of a more complex and productive economy; in the only real guarantee to engage, with chances of success, the process of national industrialization." (Eduardo Blanquel. 1973)

After the revolutionary struggle, the colonial exploitation structures and the denial of the indigenous culture were not dismantled. They were once again only transformed and adapted to the influence and northamerican interests. To start the road, now called "Progress", once again sacrificed the farmers to boost the supposed industrialization of Mexico; they had to put food on the table of the worker at very low prices. The United States would lend us the capital and would sell technology. After the Second World War, Mexico entered head first to the supposed industrialization, which according to northamericans and their "developmental" theories, assured us joining the select group of developed countries.

After just four decades we lost food self-sufficiency, the country is alarmingly polluted by buying expensive obsolete technology; the expected industrial plant, became branches of large transnational corporations, which produce basically consumer goods and not capital goods, commercial television and advertising in general has caused real damage in cultural identity and the conscience of Mexicans, and perhaps the most unjust; Mexico was left with a growing and un-payable, external debt, a kind of "national macro encomienda".

In 1982 Mexico had $ 53 billion debt. In 2002, twenty years later debt amounted to 157 billion dollars, three times more than in 1982. But in these 20 years Mexicans paid 460 billion dollars just for interest. A much higher amount than the 13 billion dollars invested in the Marshall Plan to recover a Europe devastated by World War II.