Is it accurate to view Mexican history from 1810 to 1930…
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Is it accurate to view Mexican history from 1810 to 1930 as just one single civil war?
I’ve been diving deep into early Mexican history, and I can’t get over the ultimate irony that Mexico ended up executing both Vicente Guerrero and Agustín de Iturbide; the two very men who joined forces to give the people a nation
It got me thinking about the broader trajectory of the country. It feels like the War of Independence and the deep-seated social/ideological civil war that started in 1810 never actually got resolved in 1821 because the fragile alliance between the radical insurgent (Guerrero) and the conservative royalist (Iturbide) shattered immediately because they had incompatible visions for the nation state
If you look at it through this angle, the conflict didn't stop. It just kept morphing
•1820s–1850s: Federalists vs. Centralists (leading to massive territorial loss)
•1850s–1860s: The Reform War and the French Intervention (the absolute peak of this ideological split)
•1876–1911: The Porfiriato period which feels less like a resolution and just suppressed the conflict
•1910–1929: The Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, reopening the exact same wounds of land reform, secularism, and elite vs. peasant power
That’s like almost 120 years of internal conflict with the same core ideological struggles between the liberal and conservative views since independence. Even so, today Mexico still hasn’t found peace due to the rise of militarize drug cartels that started in the 1980s with local warlords, much like regional caudillos in the 1830s
***Mexico repeatedly confronted some unresolved structural questions after independence, and those questions reappeared in different conflicts***
#local
I’ve been diving deep into early Mexican history, and I can’t get over the ultimate irony that Mexico ended up executing both Vicente Guerrero and Agustín de Iturbide; the two very men who joined forces to give the people a nation
It got me thinking about the broader trajectory of the country. It feels like the War of Independence and the deep-seated social/ideological civil war that started in 1810 never actually got resolved in 1821 because the fragile alliance between the radical insurgent (Guerrero) and the conservative royalist (Iturbide) shattered immediately because they had incompatible visions for the nation state
If you look at it through this angle, the conflict didn't stop. It just kept morphing
•1820s–1850s: Federalists vs. Centralists (leading to massive territorial loss)
•1850s–1860s: The Reform War and the French Intervention (the absolute peak of this ideological split)
•1876–1911: The Porfiriato period which feels less like a resolution and just suppressed the conflict
•1910–1929: The Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, reopening the exact same wounds of land reform, secularism, and elite vs. peasant power
That’s like almost 120 years of internal conflict with the same core ideological struggles between the liberal and conservative views since independence. Even so, today Mexico still hasn’t found peace due to the rise of militarize drug cartels that started in the 1980s with local warlords, much like regional caudillos in the 1830s
***Mexico repeatedly confronted some unresolved structural questions after independence, and those questions reappeared in different conflicts***
#local
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