Disasters and socioeconomic conflicts in Mexico from a historical perspective

Abstract

This paper introduces a historical compilation of disaster and other events that occurred in Mexico between 1448 and 2022. Events were explored when they related to health issues (plagues, famines, and epidemics); sabotage, terrorism, shock groups, repression of worker´s and student´s movements; attacks on population groups, internal wars, crimes and homicide victims, other incidents; as well as the effects on environment due to human action. The general methodology of the research was based on the collection of secondary documental information. From a historical perspective, results highlight that the socioeconomic vulnerability of Mexico is high. Considering that the ‘pacification’ of the country was achieved at the end of the 1930s and that the set of studied events reached 274 cases, 98% of them correspond to the 20th and 21st centuries.

Keywords

• desastres
• historia
• méxico
• estudio documental