John Kenneth Turner
American journalist and author best known for the 1910 exposé 'Barbarous Mexico', which documented abuses under Porfirio Díaz and advocated for social and labor reform; associated with muckraking and progressive causes.
Books
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1. Mexico Barbaro
A searing investigative exposé of social and political brutality in Mexico during the Porfirian era, compiling eyewitness testimony, interviews and official documents to reveal widespread exploitation, peonage and near‑enslavement of indigenous and campesino workers on haciendas and plantations; the book documents torture, massacres and summary executions, the collusion of government and military officials with wealthy landowners, and the deep injustices that fueled revolutionary unrest, offering a moral and journalistic indictment intended to shock international readers into awareness and reform.
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