Blog # 6

I find it sad that even when there was a revolution that succeeded in Mexico, it was not the natives who succeeded, it was the rich Spanish who could not get enough power. It bears a parallel to the early U.S. with the American Revolution. It was the rich, who, being kept out of the inner circles of the British, riled up the farmers and common folk. Not because they cared about what happened to those less fortunate than them as they claimed, but because they wanted more than what they had.