Saltillo Fair Analysis

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The Saltillo Fair was the annual exchange of goods in northern Mexico City and it started at the end of the seventeenth century. San Antonio merchants and ranchers traveled to the fair in August. They brought along cattle, cattle byproducts, and hides and they returned with flour, fashions, salt, utensils, and other items. The fair served as the major economic and social destination for Bexarños. It demonstrated the close ties between the local economy and northern Mexico in the absence of a Texas port on the Gulf of Mexico.

Francisco Javier Rodríguez was a petty-merchant who owed a lot of debt to customers. Due to that, he was not planning on returning to the fair the following year. He wanted to wait to return until he had the necessary means to pay back his debt. Francisco was very knowledgeable of the situation and he promised his customers that he would pay them back by the 1783 fair. During …show more content…

It allows people from either side to come and share some products with other in exchange for equal or the same value of that product. Both Rodríguez and González represented the different sides of sustainability for the Saltillo fairs. Rodríguez showed poor sustainability because he ran away from his problems. He made a promise that he could not keep, so he hired a surety to do the talking for him. The buyers probably felt like the retailer was a coward because he would not tell them why he does not have the money face to face. González hurt the fair because the buyers might not come back because of the lack of respect and responsibility they were treated with. Rodríguez, on the other hand, showed very strong sustainability. He helped the image of the fair because he demonstrated perseverance. He showed his buyers that he would do anything in order to be successful or reach a goal. These customers noticed all of the hard he put in and are more likely to come back and bring

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