ABSTRACT
A few Mexicans enriched themselves, but above all multinational corporations from the United States raked in the money. Nineteenth-century Mexican liberalism from Benito Juarez to the end of the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship, with its positivist overtones, was a throwback to those age-old Western ways of blueprinting how a nation should work. Mexican society is in a very real sense more than multiethnic and more than pluralistic, and more than a juxtaposition of cultural artifacts and traditions and proclivities. The dance flowed during the Bourbon reforms, when there was an attempt to impose foreign models on the Hispanic-criollo-mestizo-Amerindian-African Mexican emergent cultural hybrid, which culminated in the movement for independence. It flowed until the liberal reforms of Juarez and took a bizarre turn in the Porfirio Diaz era.
