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Government education is considered a triumph of the Mexican Revolution, and such an expansion would threaten many vested interests. But for out-of-the-box Mexican thinkers and reformers who really want to improve Mexican education, these are real possibilities. (Mexidata.info)
Hear Them Roar Nov 5, 2006
Los Tigres have never strayed from this style, which has roots in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when corridos served as a way of spreading news. Today Los Tigres are superstars of msica ranchera, Mexico's country music. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Viva Zapata! Oct 30, 2006
The spirit of the Mexican Revolution lives on in a printmaking exhibition in Philadelphia ... As the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) redressed land inequities redistributing land to peasants and farmers and sought to achieve full literacy and racial equality, the art world evolved to find a new appreciation for the art and culture of the native people. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Pope Benedict XVI names 4 new saints Oct 25, 2006
"I'm still Catholic, but I've branched out and taken charge of my own beliefs. I'm not as devout as [my parents are]. My parents pray to the Holy Mary and the Santo Nino, but not really to any other [saints or patron saints]." Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia's work took place in Mexico where, prior to his death in 1938, the bishop was known to have disguised himself and helped those who were wounded in the Mexican Revolution. Guizar Valencia's work also focused on rebuilding a seminary. (U-Wire.com)
2 nuns among 4 named new saints Oct 17, 2006
Also named a saint was Mexican Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, who risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican revolution. In 1921, he renovated a seminary in Jalapa, Mexico, but the government later seized the building. (Buffalo News -- National)
Catholic Church Has 4 New Saints Oct 16, 2006
The pope also elevated to sainthood Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, a missionary who sometimes disguising himself as a street vendor or a musician and risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican revolution. Faithful in Mexico say that the bishop's body showed remarkably little signs of decay after being removed from burial ground in a cemetery and put on display in the local cathedral some 12 years after his death. (CBS News)
Pope elevates four to sainthood Oct 16, 2006
The pope also elevated to sainthood Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, a missionary who risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican revolution. "We register them in the roll call of the saints and we establish that in all the Church they will be devotedly honoured among the saints," the pontiff said, as he read the canonisation ritual in Latin. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Pope Benedict names four saints Oct 16, 2006
Bishop Guizar Valencia disguised himself to care for the wounded during the anti-clerical Mexican revolution, while Italian priest Filippo Smaldone founded an order of nuns and schools for the deaf. Mother Theodore Guerin pioneered schools and religious institutions on the American frontier, while Rosa Venerini helped to establish Italy's first public schools for girls. (BBC News -- Europe)
Bravery, hard work characterize lives of 4 newest saints Oct 16, 2006
Mexican Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican Revolution - sometimes disguised as a street vendor or a musician. On Sunday, the two were named saints along with two Italian pioneers: a nun who advocated public schooling for girls in the late 17th century, and a priest who was a trailblazer for the education of the deaf. (AZCentral -- News)
UPI NewsTrack TopNews Oct 16, 2006
The four new saints are Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, 1878-1938, who disguised himself so she could care for the injured during the Mexican revolution; Filippo Smaldone, 1848-1923, an Italian priest who founded an order of nuns and schools for the hearing impaired; Mother Theodore Guerin, 1798-1856, a pioneer of schools and religious institutions on the American frontier; and Rosa Venerini, 1656-1728, who helped to establish Italy's first public schools for girls. -0- Ecuador heads for... (Washington Times)
Pope proclaims four new saints, including nun who worked in American frontier Oct 15, 2006
Pope Benedict also named Rafael Guizar Valencia, a bishop who tended to the wounded during the Mexican Revolution and two Italians. Rosa Venerini was a nun who pushed for education for girls. (KOLD.com, AZ)
Saints canonized by Pope Oct 15, 2006
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Benedict XVI gave Catholics four news saints Sunday, bestowing the honor on a 19th century nun who struggled in the American frontier, a bishop who tended to the wounded during the Mexican Revolution and two Italian clergy who worked with the deaf ... The pope also elevated to sainthood Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia, a missionary who risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican Revolution. (USA Today -- News)
Pope proclaims four new saints Oct 15, 2006
A French-born nun who struggled in the 19th century in American frontier land, an Italian priest who helped the deaf, an Italian nun who pushed for public school education for girls and a Mexican bishop whose risked persecution during the Mexican revolution were proclaimed as saints ... The bishop, sometimes disguising himself as a street vendor or a musician, risked his life to tend to the wounded during the Mexican revolution. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
La Botz: Mexico's Two Presidents Oct 6, 2006
In calling the Convention, Lopez Obrador stated that he was operating in the great Mexican revolutionary tradition beginning with Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo and Jose Maria Morelos in the Independence struggle of 1810-1825; Benito Juarez, leader of the Liberals in the Reform Movement and the war against France in the 1850s and 60s; and Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1940 ... The new government was instructed to take power on November 20, the anniversary of... (Zmag.org)
Lucky trio shares lunch with Tejano star 09-28-2006 Sep 29, 2006
He also has two brothers still in his band, known as Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution. Hernandez also said that Ramos always has time for the fans and is very humble and down to earth. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Scipes: AFL's Foreign Policy Sep 28, 2006
The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1924. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Zmag.org)
More of this story Sep 23, 2006
Tuesday, Nov. 28 - Alice Gatliff used to entertain visitors to her Curio Cafe in Agua Prieta with stories of bullets flying through her hair during Mexican Revolution battles. The stories were true, for Gatliff was a friend of Mexican Presidents Plutarco Elias Calles and Alvaro Obregon. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Another Mexican Revolution Sep 22, 2006
News Before It's News. Last Updated: Sep 22nd, 2006 - 06:49:57. (Ocnus.net)
The Devil and Hugo Chavez Sep 21, 2006
20, 2006 When a Mexican reporter asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a question during a press conference at the United Nations this afternoon, Chavez beamed and told the room that he was a great fan of the Mexican Revolution hero Pancho Villa. "Especially the part," Chavez said, "when Villa invaded the United States." True to his boisterous style, Chavez was in the midst of his own invasion of New York City, where he brought his unabashedly radical, left-wing and anti-U.S. politics to the... (Time.com)
Non-Spanish-speaking Mexican immigrants growing Sep 20, 2006 More Mexican Migrants Speak No Spanish Sep 19, 2006 Obrador to be 'parallel president' Sep 18, 2006 Leftist hailed as `legitimate president' Sep 18, 2006 Calderon, Mexico's Next President, to Embrace Rival's Agenda Sep 6, 2006 Lopez Obrador's continuing fight frustrates many Sep 6, 2006 Hired Hands: Breaching the border Sep 4, 2006 Who's in Charge in Oaxaca? Aug 29, 2006 Unabomber's journal, other items to be put up for auction online Aug 13, 2006 Does this change your travel plans? Aug 11, 2006 Hundreds of Mexican Miners Fired for Striking Aug 10, 2006 Down Mexico way: Efforts to preserve river in Sonora flowing along Aug 9, 2006 U.S. should lay low on Cuba Aug 8, 2006 Sewer workers repair rotting line to relieve problems in 15 households Aug 8, 2006 Lopez Obrador: Speech in Mexico City Aug 7, 2006 Mexico's mission: Bridge the divide Aug 3, 2006 Medrano works in print before joining USPS Jul 27, 2006 Guillermo Hernandez, 66; Expert on the Corrido, a Mexican Ballad Tradition Jul 22, 2006 Lendman: Mexico Democracy 2 Jul 13, 2006 Wednesday Back In Time 07-12-2006 Jul 13, 2006 A Heros Tale Jul 10, 2006 Calderon wins election in Mexico Jul 7, 2006 Mexico begins review of disputed presidential vote; leftists want all ballots checked Jul 6, 2006 Recount calls leftist lead in question Jul 6, 2006 Doctor looks back on an exciting life Jul 5, 2006 Aye, Chihuahua! Jul 4, 2006 Mexico election too close to call Jul 3, 2006 Mexico election locked in tense tie Jul 3, 2006 Sprague: US Labor Internationally Jun 23, 2006 Mexico's once-mighty party struggles Jun 19, 2006 Wilkins: Mexico & Afr.-Amers. Jun 15, 2006 Fernandes: Trade Treaties Jun 14, 2006 Exhibit celebrates Latinos' struggle to preserve identity Jun 10, 2006 FORMER SAN ANTONIO MAYOR SPEAKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION Jun 4, 2006 Borders without visas May 23, 2006 The Three Burials of Meliquades Estrada May 20, 2006 Police storm rebel Mexican town May 5, 2006 Photographer focuses on 'real life' of Latinos May 4, 2006 'A Day Without Immigrants' -- Alliance or Alienation? May 2, 2006 Castro: Ramonet Interviews Castro Apr 23, 2006 Inside Real Estate Apr 21, 2006 Take the kids to vivid, anarchic Mexico City Mar 22, 2006 Mexican acad hands out Ariels Mar 16, 2006 Poet spent 27 years composing work Mar 13, 2006 The Bath Riots: Indignity Along the Mexican Border Jan 29, 2006 Mexico Meets the Midwest Jan 14, 2006 Mexico's Zapatista Rebels Leave Jungle to Start Campaign to Unite Workers Jan 2, 2006
" Many indigenous workers are migratory and take their chances from job to job, where there may or may not be a Sandoval Perez. Many of the garlic pickers head south. Others stay here to pick hops. Ramon Ramirez, who heads Oregon's farmworker union, has sent indigenous language-speaking organizers into fields to hear the immigrants' problems. They didn't use banks back home and usually don't here, he said, making them potential targets for robbery. "Some car lots charge them outrageous interest... (AZCentral -- News)
Troubled communication Sep 19, 2006
A low-wattage union radio station is scheduled to go on air Nov. 20 -- Mexican Revolution Day -- with indigenous-language broadcasts detailing labor rights and other topics for farmworkers. . (Washington Times)
A low-wattage union radio station is scheduled to go on air Nov. 20 - Mexican Revolution Day - with indigenous-language broadcasts detailing labor rights and other topics for farmworkers. A nonprofit law center has also distributed tapes and other materials in indigenous languages, outlining workers' rights. (Newsmax)
Mr Lopez Obrador will be sworn in as "legitimate president" on November 20, the Mexican Revolution holiday. Mr Calderon will be inaugurated on December 1. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Claiming election fraud, they overwhelmingly voted not to recognize Calder;n as president and planned to inaugurate L;pez Obrador and his parallel government on Nov. 20, the national holiday commemorating the Mexican Revolution. Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal -- the only institution with the constitutional authority to annul elections -- this month ratified Calder;n's slim victory -- less than 234,000 votes out of 41 million cast. (The Miami Herald)
I don't think any consensus on legislation is possible,'' said John Womack Jr., a professor of Latin American history at Harvard University and author of a book on the Mexican Revolution. Calderon has 26 years experience in politics to help him negotiate new alliances for the National Action Party. (Yahoo News -- Mexico)
MEXICO CITY - The fabled Mexican revolution that began in 1910 but was never quite finished will have to stay undone a little longer ... Whether Emiliano Zapata and other historic Mexican revolutionaries would be sharing afterlife tequila shots in the leftist's honor or spinning in their graves is uncertain. (Houston Chronicle)
1910: Mexican Revolution prompts thousands to flee north, with a million seeking security and work over the next 20 years. 1919: Thousands of immigrant labor activists are deported after raids led by U.S. attorney J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration, then part of the U.S. Department of Labor. (Sacramento Bee)
By Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer August 28, 2006 OAXACA, Mexico The trouble here started in the classroom and has spilled into the streets of this colonial tourist capital, where a three-month teachers strike has grown into a dangerous and, at turns, farcical Mexican revolution. Thousands of protesters camp in and around the central plaza. (Los Angeles Times)
-- Books: Titles ranging from 201 Russian Verbs to Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
Your alias is taken from the Mexican revolution of 1913 and I find myself wondering, with sentiments like yours, whether you side with Pancho Vila or the dictator Diaz. Given your sentiments, I don't think you are much of a democrat. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
And when work stopped at Cananea, on the hundred-year anniversary of the uprising there that started the Mexican Revolution, miners announced they too wouldn't resume work until Gomez was reinstated. In a July report, the National Human Rights Commission found that the local office of the federal labor ministry had "clear knowledge" before the accident of the conditions that would set off the explosion. (Ocnus.net)
Unlike in Arizona, where the riparian area is owned and protected by the Bureau of Land Management, the river runs through Sonoran land long held by private ranchers and ejidos the farming and ranching collectives born out of the land reforms of the Mexican revolution. As a result, efforts to promote responsible use of the river often have to confront traditions that span generations and favor immediate economic return over sustainability. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Remember that old saying from the 1910-17 Mexican Revolution: "No general can resist a $50,000 cannonade." Speed up preparations for a big Cuban Development Fund for when there are clear signs of a political opening. In the meantime, prepare a step-by-step conditional engagement policy. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
An added bur is that since the days of the Army base - which dates back to the Mexican Revolution, circa 1910 - plumbing has taken vast technological steps. Mark Ostermann pointed out some of the lines that workers had dug up by Friday morning. (Nogales International, AZ)
And whatever social justice that has been won resulted from the Mexican Revolution and the struggle of Madero, Villa, Zapata and many, many more anonymous heroes. That is why we ought not to think democracy will be made to prevail from above. (Zmag.org)
Many of these rural disaffected voted some time ago "with their feet" and now live in the US. But Mexico's democratic institutions are still magnitudes stronger than they were a century ago, when class antagonism boiled over as the Mexican Revolution. Diminishing the class war by promoting economic development and rational social spending, especially in AMLO's Mexico, will grant Calder;n credibility, incorporate the PRD's oft-ignored constituents, and motivate Mexico's rural poor to stay at home... (Christian Science Monitor)
Gloria's mother was a six-year-old refuge, when, along with her five sisters and parents, they arrived in Texas, by train, as refuges of the early 20th century Mexican revolution. As I asked their feelings and beliefs of the problems, Richard said, The undocumented) fill a lot of jobs that no one in the states want to take. (Rockport Pilot, TX)
Among Hernandez's written works was a 180-page pamphlet that accompanied "The Mexican Revolution: Corridos," a four-record set put out by Arhoolie Records. His translations and transcriptions of the songs were "magnificent," Nicolopulos said. (Los Angeles Times)
General Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican peasant rebel leader who supported agrarian reform and land redistribution in the battles of the Mexican Revolution (a Mexican Simon Bolivar), was assassinated by government troops in 1919. Then in March, 1994, leading opposition candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio met the same fate on the campaign trail in Tijuana. (Zmag.org)
The widow of Mexican Revolution hero Pancho Villa died at age 100 in Chihuahua, Mexico. Villa was assassinated in 1923. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Six years later, as the Mexican revolution raged, he and his family were forced to abandon their country and move to San Antonio. At one point, as the fallout from the revolution wore on and Carranzas own great-uncle, Venustiano Carranza Mexicos first constitutional president died, the Carranzas also lived in Eagle Pass. (McAllen Monitor, TX)
Madero calls the Mexican people to take up arms and fight against the government, launching the Mexican Revolution. Conservative Calderon wins vote count in Mexico; Opponent refuses to concede. (USA Today)
Madero calls the Mexican people to take up arms and fight against the government, launching the Mexican Revolution. Allegations of voting irregularities made by Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador or his party. (North County Times)
Madero calls the Mexican people to take up arms and fight against the government, launching the Mexican Revolution. By Omar Torres, AFP/Getty Images. (USA Today)
But his fathers involvement in the Mexican revolution meant his father had to flee on several occasions, and an uncle who was a wonderful painter, but a poor money manager, left the family on the brink of homelessness ... Handsome and ready for adventure, Aguilars father, Jesus, joined his first cousin in helping to start the Mexican revolution in 1910. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
On the weekends, they ll be free to tour Chihuahua, a 750,000-population city that was home to Villa and other Mexican Revolution leaders. While UTPB students are speaking and exploring, 30 students from the Mexican university will be studying English and touring Odessa. (Odessa American, TX)
Lopez Obrador is the only one who can bring a new Mexican revolution where the poor are the ones who win, said Amalia Rodriguez, a 19-year-old student in Mexico City. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- International)
"Lopez Obrador is the only one who can bring a new Mexican revolution where the poor are the ones who win," said Amalia Rodriguez, a 19-year-old student in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador was the red-hot favourite for most of the campaign but Calderon, a former energy minister, closed the gap with aggressive TV ads painting his rival as a danger to Mexico's economic stability and linking him to Venezuela's anti-US firebrand President Hugo Chavez. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
They were involved in the Mexican revolution, they were involved setting foreign policy about the Soviet Union. . (Zmag.org)
Formed in the 1920s after the Mexican Revolution, the PRI historically focused on maintaining stability and remaining in power - not on ideology. It was a party founded on beliefs diverse enough to produce left-leaning President Lazaro Cardenas who nationalized the oil industry in the 1930s and conservative President Miguel Aleman, who filled his cabinet with businessmen in the late 1940s. (Christian Science Monitor)
All we had to do was walk, but walk south, and we'd be free as soon as we crossed the Rio Grande". What a difference a border made 1857 was a year whose profound irony made it one of the most interesting. 1857 was the year that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, an enslaved African who had sued for his freedom, on the grounds that his owner had forfeited any claim to him after taking him into a free state. Ironically, 1857 was the same year that the Mexican Congress adopted... (Zmag.org)
Basing themselves on Emiliano Zapata, a hero of the 1917 Mexican Revolution, the Zapatistas challenged the specific tenets of the NAFTA treaty and the broader neoliberal world order being promoted by the signatories. The Zapatistas were representative of a new wave of resistance to neoliberal structural adjustment that was to emerge from the margins. (Zmag.org)
The multi-artist portfolio ``Prints of the Mexican Revolution" (1947) depicts soldiers riding boxcars off to fight for the reform of Mexico's feudal farming system, family members firing rifles through the broken windows of a tony apartment, the revolutionary leader Zapata astride a rearing steed, and later Zapata, surrounded by rifles, dead and bloody on the ground.Some of the best pieces date from the 1980s. Skeleton trumpeters and drummers sit in the blooming purple branches of a ceramic... (Boston Globe -- Living)
His grandfather came to Texas from Mexico to escape persecution during the 1910-17 Mexican Revolution. Cisneros said President Bush frames the immigration issue correctly by presenting three reforms: improved border security; a channel for legal workers to be hired in the United States; and a path to earned residency and citizenship for existing and new foreign workers. (Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX)
In the period after the 1910 Mexican revolution, the government of Mexico was more likely to try (halfheartedly) to prevent its citizens from leaving than the United States was to prevent them from entering. What changed these patterns was increasing regulation of immigration, which, like most government regulation, ended up aggravating the situation it claimed to address. (Los Angeles Times)
The new film is also partly about west Texas, but that's like saying The Wild Bunch is about the Mexican revolution. The Three Burials is much bigger than Texas. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The rebel movement is named after Emiliano Zapata who founded the Liberation Army of the South and fought for fair redistribution of agriculture lands in the Mexican revolution in 1910. Its leader - who now refers to himself as Delegate Zero but formerly went under the name Subcomandante Marcos - is touring the region at the moment. (Aljazeera.Net)
His family has lived in Arizona since his paternal grandfather crossed the border to avoid being forced to fight in the Mexican Revolution. His father died when he was 12, and his mother went on welfare to raise him and his two brothers and a sister in a Spanish-speaking area of Tucson. (Herald Sun)
Sanchez has grandparents who fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. "We are a nation of immigrants," he said. (ABC News)
Let's say, I'm going to cite a Mexican military man, Lzaro Crdenas, a general of the Mexican Revolution, who nationalized petroleum. He is very prominent, carries out agrarian reform and gains the support of the people. (Zmag.org)
The country's Agrarian Law was amended that year so members of ejidos peasant collectives that received land after the Mexican Revolution could sell their individual parcels once the land was privatized. NAFTA's passage the next year created dispute-settlement provisions to protect direct foreign investments. (Investors Business Daily)
Next door, the Diego Rivera murals in the National Palace take visitors through Mexico's history, starting with an idealized view of the pre-Columbian past, through the Conquest, the Inquisition, the Mexican Revolution, and into a heroic modern age peopled by evil capitalists and valiant workers. Older children may enjoy picking out historical figures (Karl Marx looms large), while younger children will be captivated by the whirl of figures, from Aztec warriors clothed in jaguar skins to... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Set at the beginning of the 20th century before the Mexican Revolution, pic shows the bitter camaraderie of the poor who gather at a neighborhood "pulqueria," or bar serving another agave variant. Mexican cinematographer Ricardo Benet's first feature, "Noticias lejanas" (News From Afar), co-produced by Mexican film school Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica (CCC), won the first work prize as well as actress and supporting actress. (Variety)
He said Paz's father was fascinated with Mexican Revolution figure Emiliano Zapata, and Paz's grandfather was fascinated with history. Paz passionately wanted to know who the Mexican is, said Ruy-S;nchez, speaking as part of the Mexican Consulate's Faces of Mexico series. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
One evening, during a family dinner, my great-aunt Adela Dorado shared her memories with us about her experiences as a young woman during the Mexican Revolution ... Under Lea's administration, El Paso passed the first ordinance in the U.S. against Mexican hemp, or marijuana--a drug associated in the popular mind then with Mexican revolutionaries. (NPR)
The tamborazo drum, a popular instrument during the Mexican Revolution, is the heartbeat of Duranguense music ... Durango's connection with Chicago was forged in the early 20th century, when Midwestern railroad companies lured workers from the state that had the most railroad development before the Mexican Revolution, according to historian Javier Guerrero. (NPR)
The group that takes its name from Emiliano Zapata, the sombrero-wearing hero of the Mexican revolution who fought to return land held by the wealthy to indigenous farmers in the early 1900s, has lost its appeal among Mexicans for daring to stand up to Mexico's one-party rule. Viable Option. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
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