La Revolución: The Mexican Revolution

One main reason the Mexican Revolution happened was to top the injustice and tyranny of the government. What’s the difference between the federal soldiers and the rebels? War Paint saw no difference between the federal soldiers and the rebel: “…Soldiers don’t sleep in hotels and inns anymore… Where do you come from? You just go anywhere you like and pick a house that pleases you, see.

According to the article about the Cinco de Mayo on May the 5th, I learned that not only that this day is not the Mexican independence day but its real independence day is on the 16th of September. In addition, I learned that they had two government groups in 1858 where they both fought hard for a period of time, however, the liberal won and took control of Mexico with its new president named Juárez. This whole article interested me because I was able to understand the hardship and how united they are in the example where the author talked about how they won the war with France without preparing for the war. although France did come back to claim the lands. France returned back to Mexico in next day and won over Mexico.

Flores utilizes a vast array of evidence to prove his argument including giving the actual history of the Alamo, comparing the two women who helped create the Alamo—Clara Driscoll and Adina De Zavala, and analyzing the representations of the Alamo in film. The way that Flores structures his argument is interesting; he starts by presenting a social theory to explain why and how the Alamo represents a class and racial control then moves onto a chronological layout of the history of the Alamo. Flores concludes with a

After reading the article I have come to the conclusion that Hernan Cortes was justified in overthrowing the Aztecs. I believe he did not have any intentions in the first place to have a battle with the Aztecs. The Aztecs were the ones who were secretly planning on killing Cortes and anyone who was with him. In the essay it said he asked one of the natives of the city if what he was being told by his female translator and the Tascalteca was true. The native had confirmed the facts.

The Mexican revolution that started around 1910 was a cornerstone that changed the history of Mexico. The dictatorship of Diaz who was the president of Mexico fro over 35 years was one of the many reasons that people decided to rebel against his regime. The economic situation in Mexico at that time was not encouraging and discrimination between rich and poor was practiced heavily on the people. Many people were left unemployed, which drove most of them to become outlaws and criminals. Another reason that might have contributed to the revolution to ignite was the exploitation of peasants and other workers.

Then after Orcozo loses the election he leads a rebellion in Cihuhanna. A year later Huerta killed Madero and declared himself president of Mexico. The United States was against this and occupied Mexico. Years later, Pancho plundered a city in New Mexico, for revenge on America, seeing Carnanza as an enemy, and in the final year of the revolution Obregon, applies to be a president, and was against Obregon and wins the election ending

Rigoberto Rodriguez Professor Hannah English 102 October 26, 2015 Rough Draft There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. Diaz was a general from the Mexican army, on 1876 he took office, creating a new era on Mexico history one that lasted more than 30 years and was called the “Porfiriato”. This was the longest and bloodiest revolution in Latin America and it ended with more than a million deaths and exiles. Men, women, children, peasants, workers, military men, middle class people, landowners, politicians, they all fought for and against a central power to create the country that we know today. The economic downturn in the first decade of the twentieth

When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, a string of ruthless dictators and weak presidents made Mexico an easy target for its powerful neighbor, the United States. The US swooped in to expand its territory and its popular institution of slavery. By doing so, the US started a war with Mexico that was justified for illegitimate reasons. The Mexican-American War was not justified because the US took Mexico’s land for the expansion of slavery, and justified their taking advantage of Mexico when it was politically weak by hiding behind Manifest Destiny.

“I disengage,” she wrote. But then we see her emotion and her passion come out when she reads a different type of book, an autobiography. “I’ve encountered a text that speaks passionately to me, a text radical and thrilling, an author whose feminist, ethnic, sexual, and working-class concerns corresponds to my own, a book that acknowledges real-world prejudice, poverty, and sexual violation, that mixes poetry and history, memoir and argument” (267-268). The autobiographical exploration of Gloria Anzaldua had lit up a passion in Castro, but to her colleagues, the book was too “angry.” Anzaldua’s raw emotions and feelings had made the class reluctant to take Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza seriously.

The Revolution created a period of incredible change in Mexico. The forced resignation of Porfirio Diaz and adoption of the 1917 Constitution gave new strength to the middle class and rural population. As Susan Dever puts it, there was an increased interest in “nation-building rhetoric” with a focus on “patriotism, ‘our’ indigenous heritage, and the sanctity of Mexican womanhood” . The “our” she is referring to is undoubtedly the Mexican people, and one of the most accessible forms of spreading this rhetoric was film. For many citizens, film (along with radio) was one of the only ways to consume information and storytelling because many were illiterate due to limited access to education.

In response to zapatistas’ demands, the government of Mexico fight back, but in the end the Mexican government was fallen to their knees. The victims were

Although the United States war against Mexico resulted in the gaining of America’s most valuable land, the war itself wasn’t legitimate because of the revolution in Texas, motivation for superiority, and the U.S. government’s actions. To begin, the Texans began an unreasonable war because they didn’t follow Mexico’s laws and conditions. When Mexico started selling cheap land, they set conditions for the people moving in. The people had to convert to Catholicism, learn Spanish, become a Mexican citizen, and have no slaves. Many Americans didn’t like being told what to do, and disobeyed the rules and laws.

The Mexican Revolution was fought to rid Mexico of militarism, and afterwards left the victorious Revolutionaries in disagreement of what part the military was to play in the new regime since army provided a bulk of Mexico’s political leadership (Rath 3-4). Nevertheless, the army was an intricate part of the revolution and the regime that came after it. With it also came the use of violence that was appeased as the years got further away from the Revolution, and at the same time, the new regime was using violence to instill a state-building mechanism. Post-Revolutionary Violence The Post-Revolution in Mexico saw conflicts, rebellions, and an effort to combat militarism while at the same time guaranteeing the power of the new and progressive

What is the causation of social revolutions and what was the cause for the Mexican one? If there has been one thing that has been prevalent in history, it is that changes in regime usually result to a revolt of some sort and if this exacerbated that can then transcend to a war; take Russia and China for example. Today we live in an age of competitive ideologies and competitive nuclear armament where government’s main ambition is to have more power than their counterpart whether it be economically or via military force (Blasier, 1967:28). The argument that is trying to be made is that men fear revolutions because of their nature of leading to a war.

Daniela Aguado 26/09/16 Mexican history Ms: grisel “PRECEDENT TO A REVOLUTION: THE FLORES MAGÓN BROTHERS” Flores Magon brothers were very important part of the revolution, from the journalistic side since in 1893 the three collaborated in the edition of the newspaper The Democrat, Jesus as editor, Ricardo as a proofreader and as an assistant Enrique printing and writing. This was the only newspaper of the time attacking the then president Porfirio Diaz and which were seized Jesus and other collaborators, Ricardo managed to escape disguised as a printer, Enrique who was only 16 years he was not arrested. After nine months Jesus was released.