Talk:Montemorelos
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Stop re-editting my beautifull article about my town!!
[edit] Maybe something should be said
about the fact that the orange groves were originally privately owned groves until peasants seized them at around the time of the early 20th century Mexican Revolution (ca. 1920) and claimed the land for themselves. Some of my relatives were owners of an orange grove in Montemorelos and as such were forcibly expelled from their home with few possessions. When the patriarch of the family tried to fight this expulsion, some of the peasants murdered him. This led to the family fleeing to the United States, where this now-widowed mother had to raise all six of the family's children on her own with no resources, no land, and in a still-bigoted U.S. Southwest. This has colored my opinion of the Mexican Revolution and made me view it in a much more negative light than I would have coming from a purely outsider perspective. Even though the opportunities have been much more so in the U.S. than they could've been in Mexico, it was still wrong to have forced these people from their home and left them no other choice but to escape. (Krushsister 05:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC))
