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Christopher Vourlias from ForbesTraveler.com
With the movement toward synthetic fibers after World War I, though, the henequen market collapsed. Revolution shook Mexico in 1910, and angry protests against the feudal hacienda system hastened its demise.
Across the country, the once thriving haciendas were ransacked and razed; others were abandoned and left to decay. Most would remain untouched for decades.
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