Summary Of The Underdogs By Marias Azuela

The Mexican Revolution

In 1910 working citizens and indigenous people of Mexico decided they had enough of the government. They were Tired of the way the government treated the citizens. They took their land and forced them to work for barely anything, so they started a revolution. After the revolt there were many books written to describe what the time period was like for the people. One book written was The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela. The question is: is this book accurate? Or way off from the truth. In addition, was this rebellion changing anything, or were the people fighting with no direction. The revolutionaries were always fighting with one goal in mind which was to bring justice to the people. After years of fighting they did just

Diaz was a positivist, and because of this Mexico was run under the belief that order and progress were everything. Diaz also believed that everything should be documented including land ownership. However, the problem with this concept was that many poor families, especially the indigenous people did not have any documentation for their land. This consequently led to them losing their homes. Families that have been living on land for decades were ripped away from all that they had known. Unfortunately, without any documentation they couldn’t even fight what was being done to them. If they refused to leave the government often times would just burn down their houses. This is briefly expressed in Azuela’s book when one the men fighting expresses how the government had “burned” his house giving him the desire for justice, so he joined the

One of the main things the constitution does is guarantee a minimum wage. In addition, it also states that this wage must be paid in money and not any substitute for money. These new laws solved the problem of workers getting into debt because they were not paid adequate wages and were only paid in coupons. Also, the constitution “extinguished” all debts due to employers in full that were accumulated before the constitution was written. However, if one should find themselves in debt again the constitution laid out a plan on how to get this paid. The document declared that citizens would not get into more debt than they could afford, and they could not be demanded to pay their debts if the amount exceeded one month’s wages. Also, if they could not pay off their debts, their families would not be responsible for paying. This is a huge change from the previous policies that were in place before the