“You Will Have Liberty and Justice”: Teaching the Origins of the Mexican Revolution

World history textbooks often present the Mexican Revolution as beginning with Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero. While their disagreement over the presidency was the catalyst for the revolution, it doesn’t capture why so many Mexicans revolted and “challenged the existing political and social order.” Ricardo Flores Magón’s writings are an excellent resource for understanding the objections to the existing Mexican order. He founded the journal Regeneración and regularly criticized Díaz.

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