The others were heroes.įor a blow-by-blow account of the shifts in power, the battles and betrayals during this period, there are plenty of history books to be found in both Spanish and English. To keep it simple, the rogues were Diaz and Victoriano Huerta, the general who overthrew Madero and is widely blamed with having Madero killed.
A number of the heroes of the revolution - Madero, Francisco Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Venustiano Carranza, Alvaro Obregon - were at times rivals in the fighting, and all of them ended up being killed by enemies. Madero in 1910, as he sought the removal of dictator Porfirio Diaz through elections, with the slogan “effective suffrage, no re-election.” Although Diaz didn’t last much longer in power, and Madero briefly reached the presidency, the next decade was one of great upheaval and confusion. The actual date marks the call to arms by Francisco I. November 20th marks the start of the anniversary of the Mexican 1910-1917 Revolution.
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