MEXICO CITY.— On the website of the Secretary of the Interiorit is explained that, the Sunday, November 20, 1910from six in the afternoon, the armed uprising summoned by Francisco I. Madero to end the government of Porfirio Diazand establish free and democratic elections.
Madero proclaimed the so-called Plan of San Luis from his exile in San Antonio, Texas.
The manifesto denounced the abuses of the Porfirista regime and offered, among other things, to restore to the peasants the land that had been arbitrarily taken from them.
With this call, Madero hoped that the peasantry would unanimously join the uprising, like the indigenous people and the mestizos.
Taking of Ciudad Juárez
At the end of May 1911, the generals Pascual Orozco y Francisco Villa they took Ciudad JuarezChihuahua, which represented the triumph of the rebels; After the elections in October of that year, he elevated Francisco I. Madero to the Presidency, in what was the first stage of the Mexican Revolution.
Although Francisco I. Madero managed to be elected president, during the Tragic Ten (February 9 to 18, 1913), suffered a coup d’état and lost his life along with his vice president José María Pino Suárez.
Carranza summons the Constitutionalist Army
Venustiano Carranzagovernor of Coahuila, ignored the government of Victoriano Huerta and summoned Constitutionalist Army to face it. After the capture of Zacatecas, Huerta resigned on July 15, 1914 and fled the country.
That same day the constitutionalist army entered Mexico City. From that moment on, the distancing began between Venustiano Carranza and the leaders of the Northern Division, commanded by Division General Francisco Villa; and the Army of the Liberator of the South, Emiliano Zapatawhich caused the conflict to extend for five more years.
Constitution of 1917
The promulgation of the 1917 Constitution is considered to have put an end to the Mexican Revolution; However, the fighting went on longer, before the country stabilized.
Other relevant figures of the Mexican Revolution were: José María Pino Suárez, Felipe Ángeles and the brothers Ricardo, Enrique and Jesús Flores Magón; as well as Aquiles, Carmen and Máximo Serdán.
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