Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"But now it seemed that wherever the tracks unfolded and opened a way for the locomotives to pass, hissing steam and belching smoke, peasant villages lost their lands to greedy hacienda owners who could foreclose on a mortgage or bribe a judge. Although Mexico was still a heavily rural country in 1910, only about 3 percent of the people owned land." [Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, 4th Ed., p. 196]