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The movement of rural populations to the cities has characterized internal migration in Latin America, after World War II. The postwar boom in commercial agriculture was one of the main reasons for this movement. Landowners expelled sharecroppers in order to make more of a profit. Technology also reduced the need for workers to take care of properties. Increased schooling also gave many rural youths the impression that they could make it in the city. The best example of this phenomenon was and is Mexico. Mexico's rural population once had hopes of stability during the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas, because Cardenas awarded peasants free plots of land. But postwar preside
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Latin American,
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Lazaro Cardenas, Winn, Sao Paolo, Mato Grosso,
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