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Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico

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What Happened to the Mexican Workers?

In 19 o six, something happened that pushed the us. to take a front and centre roll in taking down the maconistas. There's an incredible strike, labor strike, that happend in northern mexico. An american on mining company had set up shop in a town called cananea. They reserved all the low waged, dangerous, dirty labor for mexican workers. The men standing guard wouldn't let them pass. Then one of the managers turned on a fire hose and began directing it at the marchers. All chaos breaks loose. Very quickly, the bumber yard is a total inferno. And as the fire begins to lick the sky, about forty

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