Thanks for this little mini-history lesson, I didn't know about this day having been the beginning or about Madera at all. My Mexican history is woeful woeful woeful. When I mention that I don't know such and such to my mami (like a few years ago when I learned about Las Adelitas), she looks at me oddly. She forgets I wasn't born knowing all this stuff. Anyway, you are so right...much of the current US-Mexico/immigration stuff has its roots way back. I was just thinking the other day about how ludicrous the border is, given its essentially imperialistic beginning.

¡Viva La Raza! ¡Viva la revolución! (and they/it DO and WILL)

thanks turtebella, for the appreciation as well as the story from your life. made me smile.

yeah, there's so much to know about the world's events. sometimes i fantasize about going to school to major in history just for a year or two. just to bone up on events in areas i choose.

Que vivan aquellos que tienen el coraje y la valentia para peliar por su tierra y su patria....QUE VIVA MEXICO!

Thanks for the post...

I want to be surprised that Mexico is given such short shrift in American education, but I'm not. Yes, I learned who Santa Anna was from Hollywood, and the most I learned about Mexican geography was learning to say "Ciudad de Mejico" in first year Spanish.

I did have one class in which we learned to identify North, Central, and South American nations on a map, and recite them from memory, but not much else. I mean, we weren't taught that Brazil was a Portuguese-speaking nation, just the assumption that everyone south of Texas spoke Spanish.

Eh, I don't know what it's like now, but there was little acknowledgement of modern Mexico and what shaped it.

Unfortunately, the end result of the Revolucion was the Christero War and the rise of P.R.I.

i hear you. at the same time, it all rolls on, doesn't it? each event adding to, inspiring, leading to the next. we are not done yet.

On a programming note, it seems that the link to the comment section of "Redacted Review - Station Info" is broken. Just so you know.

thanks bro. fixed.

He did it by selling huge amounts of land and interests to the USA and to foreign agents, and for doing what so many politicians do in Mexico: attempt to make the country appear to be a "First World" economic success, like the USA, but at the expense of the poorer people in Mexico, at the expense of the peasants and the farmers.

Have you read "The Shock Doctrine"? I'm just getting into it, but I mention it because what you're describing parallels the economic "reforms" Milton Friedman was pushing a few decades later in places like Chile, and which are the backbone, according to author Naomi Klein, of the neocon view of markets. Basically, their goal is to privatize nearly everything, intertwine big business and government, and leave the disposable majority slaving away and twisting in the wind. I wonder if Friedman ever studied what Diaz did in Mexico.

AMLO was ex-PRI, which is one reason he only got about 1/3 of the vote. Mexican politicians who front with a bunch of pro-immigrant rhetoric (which is all of them) and/or anti-americanism are a bunch of phonies. Mexican nationalism, like all nationalism, is a con job.

When Oaxaca rebelled AMLO didn't lift a finger in support despite having tens of thousands of supporters camped out throughout central Mexico City at the same time.

KCB....one could just as easily remove the word "Chile".....and replace it with "fill in the blank" (...........)and I would still not have a problem with your statement.

What All Mexicans need is get EXTERMINATED, that way they will have more land...and beter air. acually it would look great!

You think? We should meet and talk it over. Maybe if you're lucky I'll give ya a spelling lesson.