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Revolución Mexicana

Viva la Revolucion!

The anniversary of the Mexican Revolution makes one of the largest celebrations in Mexico. It all started when Fransisco I Madero led an uprising against Porifirio Diaz in 1910. It ended up being a major struggle and was defined by several subsequent social, anarchists, liberal, and populist movements. It ended up a many sided civil war, really. It was almost an "every man for himself" war at one point, before the different groups started banding together. The government party, PRI was formed out of the Mexican Revolution and is still in existence today. PRI had control of Mexico (through presidents) until 2000. One thing that strikes me about the Mexican Revolution is that there were women that went to battle with the men. There were two classes of women: Soldaderas, who were camp followers, they either followed their husbands to war so they wouldn't be left alone, and then there were the women that actually bore arms alongside the men. Women played a big role, as they were able to spy on the enemy and acted as nurses and cooks for the men.

There were many causes for the Mexican Revolution. There was Pancho Villa, the bandit that formed his own army. There were the individual presidents with their own agendas, there were the random other politicians with their own reasons to fight in the revolution against one or more of the other parties.