The Power and the MoneyAfter its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio Daz assumed power in 1876. Thirty five years later, Mexico entered another period of turbulent instability (1910 29), during which the country underwent a revolution, a counter revolution, a counter counter revolution, three civil wars, and four violent coups or attempted coups. In both periods, governments repudiated debts, confiscated cash