The Mexican Revolution

David Siquieros Mural: “Poeple in Arms”

 Los Rurales

Porfirio
Díaz
(1830-1915)
David Siquieros Mural: "Don
Porfirio [Diaz] and his
Courtesans". 1957-65
A Mural by Diego Rivera

The Decadence of the Porfiriato

Recardo
Flores
Magón
and
The Partido Liberal
Mexicano (PLM)
General Bernardo Reyes
Partido Democrático
Francisco
Madero
and
Pascual
Orozco
Francisco Madero

Party: Anti-
Reelection Center
of Mexico

Plan: Plan of San

Luis Postosí
Francisco Madero
Madero entered
Mexico City to
triumphal acclaim in
early June 1911.
 David Siquieros‘
“Zapata on
Horseback”

Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)

Zapatistas moving to take cornfields.
General Bernardo Reyes

Félix Díaz
General Vitoriano Huerta

Madero fell to a
military coup in
February of
Henry Lane Wilson 1913 Fraincisco
Madero
 Venustiano
Carranza
(1859-1920)

“Plan of Guadalupe”
April 1914: President
Wilson sends U.S.
troops to occupy
Veracruz
 U.S. troop ship

Monuments to the Defenders of

Veracruz against U.S. troops
Venutiano Carranza and
Alvaro Obregón
Villa and Zapata in Mexico City
November, 1914
Alvaro Obregón
(1880-1923)
Pancho Villa 1880-1923
 Alvaro
Obregón
Alvaro Obregón
 Plutarco
Elías Calles
 Between 1910 and 1920, between 1.5 and 2
million Mexican lost their lives in the Revolution.

The census takers in 1920 counted

almost a million fewer Mexican than
they had found only a decade before.
Las Soldaderas
Las Soldaderas
Lázaro Cárdenas
Rivera’s “Good
Government”