The Downfall of Diaz • 1900 Regeneracion, Mexico City
• 1906 Liberal Plan by Flores Magon Brothers
• 1908 The Creelman Interview – Diaz welcomes opposition
• 1910
– La sucesion presidencial en 1910, Anti-Re-electionist Party
– Madero issues a call to arms against Diaz
• 1911 Ciudad Juarez is taken by Pascual Orozco/Villa forces
– Treaty of Ciudad Juarez- Diaz resigns
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Mexican Revolution 1910
• Mexican Revolution
– The Overthrow of the Porfiriato
– Revolution to Civil War
– Constructive Phase
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The Revolt at Ciudad Juarez, 1910
• 1911 Ciudad Juarez is taken by Pascual Orozco/Villa forces
• Treaty of Ciudad Juarez- Diaz resigns
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Mexico Revolution video clip
• The Storm That Swept Mexico
• Villa & Zapata 10 mins • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqLeNJ07c0&feature=relmfu
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1917 Constitution
• 1917 Constitution
– Article 3 education
– Article 27 land restoration
– Article 123 workers rights
– No vice president
– President no re-election
– No official religion
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Aftermath of the Mexican Revolution • About 2 million deaths
• 1917 Constitution
– Increase in nationalism
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Augusto Sandino • Nicaraguan
• Inspired by Mexican Revolution
• War against govt Somoza & U.S.
• Sandinsimo, symbol of resistance in
• Latin America
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Argentina
• Hipolito Yrigoyen
• Man of the people
Peru
• Victor Manuel Haya de la Torre
• Influence by Mexican Revolution
• Indigenismo
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Mexican Muralist Movements
• Jose Vasconcelos
– Artist served the Revolution
• Diego Rivera
• Jose Clemente Orozco
• David Alfaro Siqueiros
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Mexican Muralists
• Diego Rivera
– Indian motifs
– Europeans vilified
• Frida Kahlo
– human suffering
2010
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1935
History of
Mexico
National
Palace
Agrarian Leader
Zapata , 1931
La Civilizacion
Tarasca, 1950
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David A. Siqueiros
• From the Dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to the Revolution—The Revolutionaries by
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