Learn something real about the Mexican Revolution and what Cinco de Mayo really was. klytlehernandez wwnorton
No, the titular group of this book aren’t the “Bad Hombres” that a certain former U.S. President fretted about. Rather, they were thedubbed so by their own countrymen who were supporters of the great leader or despotic dictator, Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, who by 1910 had already been in power for over a quarter century even as he was pushing 80 years old.
Eager for Yankee investment dollars and even welcoming imperialist influence, Mexico was seen by rich men to the north as a source of cheap land, cheap labor, and lax rules to increase business and political directives . The work of kickstarting a revolution was largely through the activities of the political party PLM , their La Junta army, cells of, which as one point had 200,000 subscribers in two countries but was still carried about like contraband.
Houston appears in the narrative at the site of a daring escape by Práxedo Guerrero, one of the resistance’s most dashing leaders who was not afraid to use both words and action to achieve revolutionary goals.
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