La construcción de la red férrea mexicana en el porfiriato. Relaciones de poder y organización capitalista del espacio

Railroads, after a hundred and fifty years of existence in the world and a century in Mexico, have been a determinant factor in the construction of the economic space in capitalist societies. Rather than being only a way of transportation, railroads became a major motive for industrialization and imperialist expansion of the developed contries. The spatial location of railroads is an exact image of the relatioships and contradictions among different groups of economic and political power intervening in their construction. The Mexican railroad network was mainly built with capital investment from abroad. Regional bourgeoisies, incipient as they were at the begining of this century, and the centralized political power also financed the construction of railroads in Mexico. So, railroads turn to be the most important elemet in the spatial configuration of the development of the capitalist economy in the Porfirio Díaz period.

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