ABSTRACT
Globally, the twentieth century has been a time of reaping the harvest of seeds sown by nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century capitalism and the liberal reforms used to justify them. This has been as true for the native Mesoamericans of Mexico and Central America as for native peoples elsewhere. Liberal programs from the neocolonial period evolved into more sophisticated and carefully planned modern “development” strategies, while widespread opposition to the injustices accompanying residual old-fashioned liberalism and the new developmental reforms led to “revolutions” throughout the region.
