Independencia, Monterrey

Independencia is a neighborhood in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

History

This neighborhood has a different history than other already established settlements in the city. In the second half of the 19th century and first years of the 20th century, the city of Monterrey experienced the boom of the industrialization, along with a fast-growing and thriving economy. However, there was a huge demand for cheap labor workers. The government thusly promoted the immigration of people from other states. The neighborhood Independencia was established with the name of 'Barrio San Luisito' in the late years of the 19th century, with poor immigrants from the states of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas being a predominant demographic. Later, the neighborhood was settled by people from other Mexican states who tried to get into the bracero program to work in the United States, but some were rejected by the program in the US. The Mexican government offered these people to settle in a promising city like Monterrey, then having one of the most impressive rates of economic growth in the country. Those new arrivals from San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas and other states from Central and Southern Mexico faced both ethnic and class segregation by the people of Monterrey at first, but eventually were accepted as part of the rest of the society.[1][2][3]

Today

Despite Independencia's economic wealth, today, it is still one of the poorest neighborhoods in Monterrey. In 2009, Tracy Wilkinson, of the Los Angeles Times, recalled seeing many dogs and donkeys in the street. As of that year, unemployment was common. Independencia had been home to many local drug dealers for many years. Within two years leading up to 2009, major drug cartels (especially the Zetas), began to make inroads into Independencia and pinned the residents against the government.[4]

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References
  1. Moreno, Aparicio; Estuardo, Carlos; Rubí, Ortega; Estela, María; Sandoval Hernández, Efrén (1 December 2011). "La segregación socio-espacial en Monterrey a lo largo de su proceso de metropolización". Región y sociedad. 23 (52): 173–207 – via SciELO.
  2. Capron, Guénola y Salomón González. 2006. Las escalas de la segregación y de la fragmentación urbana, TRACE (49): 65-75.
  3. Ariza, Marina y Patricio Solís. 2009. Dinámica socioeconómica y segregación espacial en tres áreas metropolitanas de México, 1990 y 2000. Estudios Sociológicos XXVII (1): 171-209.
  4. Wilkinson, Tracy. "Mexico drug cartels buying public support." Los Angeles Times. March 13, 2009. 1. Retrieved February 20, 2010.


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