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Mexico’s independence movements were very different from the other independence movements of …show more content…
a situation in which the economy of a certain group of countries is conditioned by the development and expansion of another economy, to which their own is subjected" (Groglopo).
In Mexico, "dependency perspectives have significantly shaped subsequent analysis of the Mexican Revolution and its impact on internal, as well as external, social relations" (Haynes). Along with many other colonies of the time, Mexico was founded under the principles of mercantilism. Mercantilism is the idea that the country’s wealth is dependent on the amount of gold and silver they are able to accumulate. The relationship thus that a colony and a mother country has is very interdependent. The mother country depends on the colony to continue to provide those precious natural resources so that they can achieve wealth and power. The colony is entirely dependent on the mother country for the importation of other goods that the country itself cannot produce.