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GARNER, Paul. Sir Weetman Pearson and National Development in Mexico, 1889-1919. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2005, n.30, pp.145-165. ISSN 0185-2620.

There continues to be a widespread belief that the relationship between the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1880, 1884-1911) and overseas businessmen such as the British contractor and politician Sir Weetman Pearson constituted a type of Faustian pact be-tween corrupt elites and rapacious foreigners in a conspiracy to plunder Mexico's economic resources. This interpretation has its roots in nationalist structuralist and dependentista historiography, which posits that British predominance in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world can only be understood in terms of British "informal imperialism", or "honorary dominion". This article argues instead that the explanation is to be found in a series of interlocking and overlapping factors which relate not only to Pearson's modus operandi but most importantly, to the political and economic context of Victorian Britain and Porfirian Mexico.

Palabras llave : foreign investors; Anglo-Mexican relations; Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila; Porfirian Mexico; Victorian Age; Porfirio Díaz; Weetman Pearson; Tehuantepec National Railway.

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