francisco i. madero was a leader of the mexican revolution that took place in the early twentieth century.
francisco i. madero was a leader of the mexican revolution that took place in the early twentieth century.
who was a leader of the mexican revolution that took place in the early twentieth century?
francisco i. madero
the popular heroes of the mexican revolution are the two radicals who lost: emiliano zapata and pancho villa. dynamic equestrian statues of popular revolutionaries zapata and villa were erected in their respective strongholds. zapata's name was appropriated by the rebels of chiapas, the zapatista army of national liberation (ezln) while those who took and held power have a far more muted historical remembrance. venustiano carranza led the victorious constitutionalist faction, but his attempt to impose a civilian presidential successor unacceptable to northern revolutionary generals prompted carranza's flight from mexico city in 1920 and then murder. carranza is now buried in the monument to the revolution and there is a museum in his honor. in that museum, "are the bullets taken from the body of francisco i. madero after his murder. carranza had kept them in his home, perhaps because they were a symbol of a fate and a passive denouement he had always hoped to avoid." revolutionary general plutarco elías calles founded the dominant mexican political party of the twentieth century, but his attempt to continue his control to the presidency of lázaro cárdenas resulted in cárdenas expelling him from mexico. neither carranza nor calles has much of note named for them in mexico, although both are significant figures in the country's history.
mexican revolution
the party's name expresses the mexican state's incorporation of the idea of revolution, and especially a continuous, nationalist, anti-imperialist, mexican revolution, into political discourse, and its legitimization as a popular, revolutionary party. the revolution was a powerful memory and its slogans and promises were utilized to bolster the party's power. latterly, some historians have written of the "myth" of the revolution, namely the memory of the revolution was exploited by the party to legitimatize its rule with one historian macario schettino writing: "the twentieth century is for mexico, the century of the mexican revolution. but this is a concept, not a fact. the revolution which marks the twentieth century...never happened. the mexican revolution, on which was founded the political regime which ruled from 1928 and for nearly seventy years is a cultural construction". in 1975, the political scientist rafael segovia wrote that "the mythification of the mexican revolution is an omnipresent and indisputable fact" of mexican life with the memory of the revolution becoming in the words of the british historian alan knight a sort of "secular religion" that justified the party's rule. in particular, the memory of the revolution was used as justification for the party's policies with regard to economic nationalism, educational policies, labour policies, "indigenismo" and land reform.
mexican revolution