What Was The Mexican Revolution

The Mexican revolution (1910-1917) was the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz. Diaz was a dictator who had been in office for over 35 years from 1876-1911. He was extremely persuasive and used those traits to earn him a great amount of time in office. While Diaz was in power, Mexico’s economy was divine. He skillfully used threats, persuasion, and power to keep him in office. However, with such an economic boom, many of Mexico’s citizens felt the brunt of it all. There was many taxes being issued on the country as well as land confiscation. Only 2 percent of the whole population had their own ownership to land and many were forced into debt. In 1910, Diaz promised an election. In hopes of finding a new leader, Mexico naturally displayed excitement.
Over 1 million Mexicans were killed in the gruesome war. The papers read that Diaz had a large army of 35 thousand men following him but in reality he had a mere amount of approximately 17 thousand men. http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/20thcentury/articles/mexicanrevolution.aspx In 1911, Madero took control of Ciudad Juarez, a town in Chihuahua Mexico. This enabled the Mexican’s rights to carry firearms into the country without any infringements. Diaz eventually escaped to France but his words before he left were worth quoting “Madero has unleashed a tiger. Let us see if he can ride it” http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/20thcentury/articles/mexicanrevolution.aspx Porfirio Diaz died at age 84, 1915. http://mexicanhistory.org/Diaz.htm Although he caused the country of Mexico to progress at a great speed, his ruling was very abusive towards the citizens of Mexico and he met many
Even if the war was officially ended however, there was still fighting that went on. In 1920 Carranza decided that he wanted a right hand man. He went against Alvaro Obregon, a former general of the Mexican revolution against Diaz. Obregon assassinated Carranza on May 21, 1920 and announced himself as the new president of Mexico on December 1. Obregon was proving to be a good president until he announced that Plutarco Calles was to be his successor. This angered Obregon’s finance manager, de la Huerta who decided to begin a rebellion against Obregon in 1923. Soon after the fighting had begun, Huerta realized it was a lost cause and escaped by fleeing to