Mexico Barbaro by John Kenneth Turner
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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- Published
- 1910
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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- Barbarous Mexico
- Mexico Barbaro
- México bárbaro
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