What Is The Mexican Revolution?

The infamous revolutionary Che Guevara once said, “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe, You have to make it fall”consequently meaning that if a society wants to see a difference they have to work for it, and not wait for it to happen. We have seen many revolutions throughout history. Revolutions from the 1776 American Revolution to the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s that have changed their country and even the world. A specific revolution that changed the lives of the working class, was the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution happened when the working class of Mexico started to question the leadership of Porfirio Diaz.
Additionally, Porfirio Diaz had been leading Mexico during the years 1876 to 1911, which made
Diaz put in Francisco Leon de la Barra as a provisional president as Diaz left and moved to France. According to the Timeline of the Mexican Revolution 1911 by Emerson Kent, “Diaz then picked his exile resort of choice and left the country for Paris, France”. The working class was able to have the humiliation that they wanted because they were able to get rid of their president, and they were also able to make him leave the country. This was a great deal to the working class of Mexico because this was going to be the part of the Revolution where they were going to be able to get back on their feet. They were no longer going to be just the working class, but they were now going to be the working class that changed the Mexican society. The Mexican Revolution happened with the help of Francisco Madero (who believed in voting), Pascual Orozco (who believed in unity), Pancho Villa (who helped the poor), and Emiliano Zapata (who gave the land back to the poor). Their main goal as leaders of the Mexican Revolution was to give back what was taken away from the working class. They were able to help the Mexican Revolution become a real
After the Revolution Mexico became a more conservative society, had minor changes for the working class, and they ended dictatorship in their country. A Brief History of Mexico by Dan La Botz states, “After Cardenas stepped down as president, the Mexican government turned to the right, became much more conservative in economic terms”. This means that Mexico started worrying once again about how they were as a country, and in their relationship with the United States of America, leaving the working class of Mexico as if a Revolution had never happened. This means that even if during the Revolution there were minor changes for the working class after the Revolution there seemed to be no change. The minor changes that the Revolution fixed for the working class were that they were able to distribute some land back to them. President Lazaro Cardenas did this under the agrarian reform program. President Lazaro Cardenas was able to give the working class the land that was taken away from them many years ago. Lazaro Cardenas by Robert J. Alexander states, “Under the agrarian reform program, he distributed nearly twice as much land to peasants as had all of his predecessors combined, such that by the end of his administration about half of the country’s cultivated land was held by previously landless farmers”. President Lazaro Cardenas gave the working class a sense of hope to the future.