...! THE HUMANITIES PROGRAM ! ! ! THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO ! ! ! A ! Short Paper ! Presented to ! Professor Shipley ! ! ! ! For ! Humanities 202-13 ! Enduring Human Values and Cultural Connections ! ! ! ! MARCH 20, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! HAMPTON UNIVERSITY HAMPTON, VIRGINIA The Mexican Revolution was a long and bloody civil war in many different areas of Mexico. The war came about after a long time of oppression and exploration of the Mexican people by the dictatorship-like government. The revolution began while Porfirio Diaz was the dictator of Mexico. Diaz first started off as a military general. Diaz was a liberal and was an important part of the reelection of President Juarez. Although they were friends, Diaz run against Juarez in the next election. Diaz lost and started to rebel against the government until Juarez shut him down. When Juarez suddenly died, Diaz become the new leader of Mexico with the help of the U.S. Government and the Roman Catholic Church (Minster). Now that Diaz was in power, corruption started to occur. The people of Mexico had no power and were not allowed to voice their opinion or select people for office position. In addition, the wealth of the country was controlled by a few people. By the beginning of the 20th century, the people of Mexico wanted more control of their control, especially after Diaz announced that Mexico was ready for democracy. Francisco Madero and a group of young reformers created the Anti-reeleccionista Party and began to run...
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...The Mexican Revolution can be categorized as the first great revolution of the 20th century which was cause by the need for the dictatorship of Mexican President Porfino Diaz to end. This revolution was not just one type of people wanting the end of his regime all classes joined the revolts against his form of government. The Mexican Revolution was led by Francisco I. Madero he was seeking a way towards democracy while others didn’t have the same goal in mind. The lower classes were rebelling against Perez but with a different intent in mind. These dwellers as they were called wanted their land and rights that taken away from them back. The revolution soon changed when they realized that Madero was not in support of their goals and they began a revolution of their own seeking justice. This chain of events led to the death of Francisco Madero once he was killed the movement was revitalized by Victoriano Huerta. Huerta brought the necessary changes to the revolution in my opinion. The revolution didn’t happen all at one time it occurred in stages. Many things can be stated for the causes of the Mexican Revolution. One of these reasons was economic inequality while others many suffered while others flourished. While under Porfino regime Mexico did have vast improvements although it was a cost to the little man. For Porfino to truly bring change, he advanced many aspects of Mexico such as the railroad which was ongoing growth and Industry. With help from foreign investors he was...
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...The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) started due to a group of people disappointed with the way Mexican President, Porfirio Díaz, was ruling (Beezly), but would later evolve into a civil war. In 1910, the Mexican people overthrew the corrupt and sclerotic dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled the country for decades (Kennicott). With the revolt against the government many social changes began to occur. Women had a role in started to have a level of importance in society, which was very uncommon for the time. (Macias). Additionally, people started to paint murals to illustrate this time of disagreement (Kennicott). However, the art would be interpreted in a way that was unintended, and it would lead to negative emotions for the people....
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...[Type the document title] Porfirio Diaz : The cause of the Mexican Revolution Jazmin Jimenez 10/14/2016 The Mexican Revolution was a time of skirmishes among the Mexican people, and Porfirio Diaz was a huge reason for that. One of the main causes of the war was the separation of classes; Diaz favored the rich people over the poor, and this caused many people to be angry. Another reason people wanted Porfirio Diaz out of rule is that they held him responsible for the massacre of an entire Chihuahua village called the Tomochic. The last main cause was his denial to give up his presidency; he stayed in power for more than thirty years turning his presidency into a dictatorship. These are the reasons that Porfirio Diaz had the most...
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...The Legendary Pancho Man Throughout history, the world has witnessed extraordinary human beings with great talent and unbelievable success. They have become famous and remembered for ages for what they have accomplished. One prime example is Francisco Pancho Villa. He played a key role in the Mexican Revolution, a landmark event in Spanish victory. This is the story of the legend that is still remembered till this day. Francisco Pancho Villa was born on June 5, 1878 in San Juan Rio, Durango (Birth of a Bandit1). His birth name was “Doroteo Arango” (Birth of a Bandit 2). “His sharecropper parents who lived on this hacienda were, Agustin Arango and Micaela Arambula” (Pancho Villa Legends Before the Revolution 1). They “rented” a farm by paying with crops in return of the use of the tenant farm. He worked many hardworking hours in the tenant farm with his father. Unfortunately, his father passed away when he was in his teenage years. To be exact, he died when Doroteo Arango was only fifteen years old. This was a critical moment in the Arango family. This left his mother and his three siblings...
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...Porfirio Díaz, that lasted for approximately thirty-five years, the Mexican people finally revolted upon his refusal to give up power. As a response to Diaz’s refusal to give up office in 1910, Francisco Madero, a favored presidential candidate at the time, initiated an anti re-election campaign and talked about land reform (a topic which was of interest to the indigenous communities, who had lost communal land during Díaz’s years of “Progress”). Additionally, several rebellions broke out in different parts of Mexico, each under different leaders, that were eventually successful in forcing Díaz out of office in 1911. No longer united under a common goal, however, the different rebel groups began fighting each other in an on-off “civil war” that lasted the better part of a decade....
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...History of Mexican Revolution Anthony Zermeno LALS 262/HIST 262: Latin America Since 1850 April 16, 2016 HISTORY OF MEXICAN REVOLUTION The Mexican Revolution which started in 1910 and ended in 1920, is recognized as the first major political, social, and cultural revolution on the 20th century. It was a war that started when liberals, which are people that believe that the governments action is to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all, and intellectuals began to challenge the regime of dictator Porfirio Diaz, who had been in power from 1876 to 1911, which is a term of 34 years called El Porfiriato, violating the principles and ideals of the Mexican Constitution of 1857. The constitution established individual rights such as freedom of speech; freedom of conscience; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; and the right to bear arms. It also reaffirmed the abolition of slavery, eliminated debtor prison, and eliminated all forms of cruel and unusual punishment, including the death penalty. As a result of El Porfiriato there is economic crises, anti re-election campaigns, inter-elite alliances crumbled, mobilization of subaltern sectors (peasants, workers, small landholders, etc.). Since so much corruption was taking place a revolution emerged. It was a revolution that was led by different factions, representatives of the poor peasant sector (Emiliano Zapata), poor northern ranchers (Pancho Villa), marginalized provincial middle class people (Alvaro...
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...represent the ideals of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when in fact they had totally turned away from those ideals. The Mexican Revolution was a fight for all Mexicans to have freedom, democracy, and a more egalitarian society but its political momentum was halted by the PRI. Instead, the PRI and its leadership were too capitalist, right-wing, authoritarian, and oppressive. In response, the 1968 student movement sought the recalibration of society from one that was dominated by oligarchical, capitalist interests into one that was more socialist, democratic and equal. This was reflected in the six demands they wanted of the government, what they went to protest for, and in the way they structured their organization through revolving community leadership of its student committees. In effect, the way the student movement structured themselves was how they believed an ideal society in Mexico should be structured. A democratic society where everyone participated in the political process, where no one was left out, and where no one person or group had too much authority and power. Only the goals of egalitarianism, democracy, and social justice would reign supreme. To understand why the student movement of 1968 occurred in Mexico, one has to understand the history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, why it began, its successes, its failures and how it resulted in the one party state of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). This is because the Mexican Revolution was an important event...
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...2000 that Mexico officially transition and the world formally recognized Mexico as a democratic state when Vicente Fox from the National Action Party (PAN) became president. Despite Mexico having a smooth transition to democracy, many Mexicans were later disillusioned on the lack of major changes that didn’t take place after the political power shift from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to PAN. In 2012, Mexico’s political power shifted back to PRI after PAN had taken office for two recurring presidential...
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...1922, Siqueiros returned to Mexico City to work as a muralist for Álvaro Obregón’s revolutionary government. Then Secretary of Public Education José Vasconcelos made a mission of educating the masses through public art and hired scores of artists and writers to build a modern Mexican culture. Siqueiros, Rivera and José Orozco worked together under Vasconcelos, who supported the muralist movement by commissioning murals for prominent buildings in Mexico City. Still, the artists working at the Preparatoria realized that many of their early works lacked the "public" nature envisioned in their ideology. In 1923 Siqueiros helped found the Syndicate of Revolutionary Mexican Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, which addressed the problem of widespread public access through its union paper, El Machete. That year the paper published – "for the proletariat of the world" – a manifesto, which Siqueiros helped author, on the necessity of a "collective" art, which would serve as "ideological propaganda" to educate the masses and overcome bourgeois, individualist art. Siqueiros hoped to create a style that would bridge national and universal art. In his work as well as his writing, Siqueiros sought a social realism that at once hailed the proletariat peoples of Mexico and the world while avoiding the clichés of trendy "Primitivism" and "Indianism" 1932 at the Italian Hall at Olvera Street in Los Angeles.[11] Painting fresco on an outside wall – visible to passersby as well as intentional viewers...
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...History is rife with instances where brave men and women have faced rather unfortunate or even gruesome deaths. Still, in spite of the risk for early demise or severe suffering, people still are able to fight for what they believe. Devoid of such people, the society would not have been characterized with the level of development that is present today. It is because past generations fought for the rights of the people that the contemporary society has been able to enjoy some basic rights. One of the people who sacrificed a lot for the betterment of the society is Otilio Montano. He sacrificed his life for the greater good of the Mexican people. Together with others with similar mindset, he was able to bring change in Mexico. The impact of his contribution to society is attested by the actuality that decades after his demise, he is still highly valued in Mexican history. Otilio Montano died at a tender young age of 30 years old. Despite his limited time on earth, he was able to have a profound impact on the society and his people specifically. The actuality that he chose to pursue a career as a teacher is a sign of his will to give back to the society. teaching is a demanding career where one seeks to impart knowledge to his/her students. he taught in three regions, which are Ayala, Tepalcingo and Jonacatepec, but not in this particular order. It was during...
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...Yvette Escobar December 12, 2012 Period 2 Pancho Villa One of the most notorious rebels in Mexico was Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga.. Pancho Villa was important because he was part of the group of rebels who supported Francisco Madero in the Mexican Revolution when he rose up against the regime of Porfirio Diaz. Madero came to power but was then overthrown and killed. Victoriano Huerta then took power. Villa was the leader of one of the armies that fought against Huerta's regime. Villa and the other leaders were able to overthrow Huerta and to set up the semi-democratic system that is still in place in Mexico today, it has become much more democratic in the last 12 years. Pancho Villa then was famous because he was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. Villa's Robin Hood story began after he established himself and his bandit followers in the sierras in 1900. Officially, the years 1900-09 are "unaccounted for," but it was during this period that he became a legendary hero to the poor for skillfully evading the Porfiriato's oppressive rurales. In 1910 Villa and his men came down from the hills to join Fransisco l Madero’s revolutionary forces, therefore making an historical transition from ‘bandidos’ to ‘revolucionarios’. The compelling figure was able to recruit an army of thousands, including a substantial number of Americans, some of whom were made captains in the División...
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... |INTERPRETATION: | |I read in the text… |I think/I wonder about /I made a connection | |1."The Mexican Senoras and Senoritas write, read and play a |1.In this quote we get an insight of what the life of a Mexican woman | |little, sew, and take care of their houses and children. When I|was. The author sees Mexican women as someone who is very dedicated to | |say they read, I mean that they know to read; when I say they |her family, loyal and lovable. And also the way the author describes | |write, I do not mean that they can always spell; and when I say|Mexican women tells us how respectful he was toward Mexican women. | |they play, I do not assert that they have generally a knowledge| | |of music." (Frances Calderon de la Barca, Women and War in | | |Mexico, pg. 196). |2.The Revolution in Mexico was actually long and bloody. Some people had | |2."Revolution in Mexico! or Pronunciamiento, as they call |no idea how long it was going to take and how horrible effects it was | |it.The storm which has for some time been brewing, has burst |going to have on them. The author explains the horror and damage...
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...HST 202 Apri Pancho Villa’s Raids into the United States There is a day in U.S. History that is sometimes forgotten. On this day, five hundred Mexican guerillas crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and induced anarchy upon a small New Mexico town. The day is March 9, 1916. On this day, former friend to the United States, Pancho Villa raided the United States and killed seventeen Americans. Doroteo Arango, also known as, Pancho Villa was born on June, 5 1878, in Rio Grande, Mexico. Villa was made the man of the house at a young as after the death of his father. His life of rebellion and crime started at a young age as he was arrested and imprisoned for killing a man who was harassing his younger sister (Bio.com). Soon after his conviction he escaped prison and began his life as an outlaw. As years went on and Mexico’s government was torn by corruption, Villa teamed up with Francisco Madreo and started a Mexican revolutionary throughout the northern part of Mexico (Bio.com). As one of Madreo’s most skilled and talented fighter he was appointed Colonel (Bio.com). In 1911, Villa leads his troops to victory in the Battle of Cuidad Juarez and Madreo becomes Mexico’s new president (Emerson Kent.com). In the following year Villa disobeys direct orders from Madreo and gets sentenced to life in prison (Bio.com). Once again Villa escaped out of prison, only this time he flees to El Paso, Texas (Emerson Kent.com). This is when Pancho Villa became a friend to the United States...
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...The Underdogs by Mariano Azulea is a captivating story about the perils endured during the Mexican Revolution. It is a stunning portrayal of events given through the point of view of the main character, and leader of a rebel faction named Demetrio Macias. The book is an interesting look at how the revolution was played out between the rich elite federal government, and the poor famers of the country. Giving a unique perspective of a rebel who does not truly understand why he is fighting, but has no choice since he rebelled against the government and was now on the run. Demetrio and his band of rebels are by no means a perfect group, nor are they necessarily good people. All the men left their homes without the ability to return, all for various reasons given in the book, which leaves them no other choice but to fight to survive. The men range from many different backgrounds, from the educated to the very poor. During the first half of the book we see the perils and at times the fun the rebels are having while walking through the forests. Taking bets on how many people they have killed, or will kill during their marches, at times betting...
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