Traduccion de capitulo de el laberinto de la soledad

OUR DAYS
Chronologically, Mexican Revolution is the first, of the greatest revolutions of the twentieth century. It is necessary to see her like a part of a general process that has notalready finished, to understanding her completely. Like all modern revolutions, ours was proposed, first, to liquidate the feudal system, transform the country by industry and technology, toremove our position of political dependence, and finally, establish true social democracy. In other words, make the leap that most lucid liberals had dreamed about, consummate Independence andReform, to convert Mexico into a modern nation. And all of this without betraying ourselves. By contrast, the changes were to reveal our true being, a new face that was known and ignored.The Revolution was going to invent a Mexico faithful to him.
The Revolution also proposed, like it was said before, the recovery of national wealth. Revolutionary governments particularlyCardenas government, decreed the nationalization of petroleum, railways and other industries. This politic is faced, to imperialism. The State, without giving up all recaptured, has to suspendthe expropriation. (It should be added in passing that without the nationalization of oil would have been impossible to industrial development.) The Revolution was not limited to expropriate:through a network of banks and credit institutions, it created new state industries, subsidized other (private or semiprivate), generally tried to guide in a rational way and public benefit,the economic development. All this - and many other things - was done slowly and not without setbacks, mistakes and immoralities. But, even if with difficulty and torn by terriblecontradictions, the face of Mexico began to change. Gradually there emerged a new working class and bourgeoisie. Both lived in the shadow of the state and only now they begin to take an autonomous life.