Mexican Revolution

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Mexican revolution- did violence was needed?
Mexican revolution has been the country’s biggest sociopolitical event since its independence, in where the civilized dialogue wasn’t enough to solve different points of view from the people, to their own government, who kept them aside by convenience. The government ignored what the people needed and used bad the money from the middle and low classpeople. Woodrow T. Wilson once said “the seed of revolution is repression.” This quote is perfectly represented by the Mexican revolution, because the government was repressing the people, that was the enough for people to use their hands. The action towards the Profiriato, (the dictatorship leaded by Porfirio diaz) started with one guy who expected to solve everything by dialogue and good actions,being selected by the people as the new president but, everything was in vain, because he was putted in prison by the Diaz’s police department for the presidential campaign he presented. His name was Francisco Madero, after he got out of jail, he discovered that the medium for a revolution in mexico was violence.

Many of the revolutions all over the world have been successful due to the useof violence by part of the people from the town “the peasants” as many call them; this groups of people that become violent are better know in many places as guerrillas. Guerrillas in Mexico were successful thanks to the fire action power. The Mexican revolution would never be possible to happened if the armed power wasn’t use to defeat the repressor of the country.

The Mexican presidentPorfirio diaz, began his precidency period pretty well. He made lots of propaganda, to encourage some rich people to construct factories, roads, dams, industries and better farms. This new Jobs obligated people to move from, the countryside of mexico, to the big cities. In were people neede to survive working lots of hours, for a few amount of dollars. Everyone was okay with this, because peopledidn’t know they were being exploded; But it made people to be focused on what the president did, causing a lot of tension in between the government and the peasants. Some time after people demanded a rise in the salary due to the over explotation and oppression because they were used as slaves and were not able to have an opinion over the country. Porfirio explained that mexico wasn’t ready to rule itsself and that he was needed to rule over the country. His own paramilitary force named “the rurales” threatened everyone who didn’t support Diaz. The pockets of the ones who had the least money paid the important things and the ones that were more expensive. This actions make people conscious of the lack of equality in the country. After some years in this situation of great tension peasants feltas if t here was no change to get heard by the president, but there was a bit of shine at the end, when Diaz wanted to turn the dictatorship in to a democracy were people could select some one to represent them as a presidential candidate.
Francisco Madero wanted to be elected but he was accused of larceny and was put in prison by the “rurales” during the elections, the only candidate that wasleft over was Porfirio diaz. This showed everyone the kind of person Diaz was. The perspective of mexico’s people changed from believing in his president, to wanting to overthrow that guy and make everything fair for everyone.
After Diaz was declared again as a president ( by him self) Madero escaped from prison. He moved to san Antonio texas from here he wrote a letter, containing a plan calledplan de san luis potosi, in where he declared the Diaz regime as illegal, and calling for a pacific revolt against the old president accusing him of robbery and declaring his dictatorship illegal. Many leaders of different communities read the letter and the majority of them agree with what Madero wrote on the paper. Lots of the peasants felted that this was the opportunity they needed to...
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