The protagonist in the journal, Mateo is a 14 year old middle class man’s son living in rural Mexico City. He is used to being spoiled by his parent and has always been taught to look down at peasant and praise the corrupt dictatorship of Diaz. The current revolution is resented by his parents, making it a struggle for him to take sides. He later discovers the truth about the corrupt Mexico through a Peasant’s son, Sebastian and his beliefs starts to change as he matures.
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After Obergon signed into his presidency, he brought almost all the people’s ideologies to friendly terms. Universal education, was establish after creation of the Ministry of Public Education which was run by Jose Vasconcelos. The Ministry of public education expanded literacy campaigns into the rural sections of Mexico and used the arts(such as Murales de la Secretaría de Educación Pública), which continued to strengthen Mexico’s culture identity. The constitution also gave workers the right to organize labor unions and to strike. It also provided protection for women and children, the eight-hour day, and a living wage. After the revolution, the government redistributed over half of its surface area in the form of ejidos: farms of individual and communal plots that were granted to a group of petitioners.
All though many were given granted with land they fought for, conflicts still occurred between the two sides of peasants and past landowners.
The right to own arms was still maintained after the revolution (till today, many Mexican cities like Guatemalan protect right to own guns for home-defense ), making it easily for robberies and assassinations.