La Revolución Mexicana

Dreams for a Future Mexico

Pancho Villa (public domain)

Revolution and Counterrevolution

In chapter 2 of Gonzales, M. J. (2002). The Mexican Revolution, we learn that when Francisco I. Madero…

Blog Post 1 (Module 3)

The expectations of lower-class participants like laborers differed significantly from those of Francisco I’s middle-class supporters during the Mexican Revolution. As a result, there was significant political instability and unrest after Madero became president. Madero was a liberal…

Blog Post 1 (Module 3)

How did the Revolution as envisioned by Francisco I. Madero and his middle-class supporters differ from the goals that lower-class participants (campesinos, laborers, etc.) had in mind? How and why did those diverging goals create problems for Madero once he had been elected president of…

Broken Promises

The Revolution, as envisioned by Francisco I. Madero and his middle-class supporters differed from the goals that lower-class…

The social the underdogs played in the Mexican Revolution

Photo of my 4x Great Grandmother Emeteria…

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Bad Mexicans

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands” offers a compelling narrative that recontextualizes the Mexican Revolution through the lens of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) and its leader, Ricardo Flores Magón. Her…

Obregón’s Success

The Mexican Revolution started out as a political revolt, turned into a social revolution, and into a series of civil wars [1]. One key reason for the Constitutionalist victory over the Conventionist was that the Constitutionalists under the leadership of Carranza and Obregon wanted to establish…