MEXICAN Revolution: important figures

In any revolution, a series of highly relevant characters appear who are of key importance for the important changes that any of these movements need to take place. To talk about the protagonists of one of the most important moments in the history of Mexico in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we must talk about the important figures of the Mexican revolution.

To divide this lesson we are going to talk about the main characters of the Mexican Revolution dividing them depending on the stage in which they were relevant. It should be taken into account that many of the people were important in more than one phase, but we will talk about them in the section where they were most relevant. In this section we see especially those people who caused the revolution with their actions, being carried away by corruption and inequalities.

Porfirio Diaz

Porfirio Diaz It was president of Mexico on up to seven occasions, ruling the nation for 31 years and creating a kind of dictatorship which was eventually called as

Porfiriato. The social crisis caused during the last years of his mandate, with upper classes with many privileges and peasants and workers in low hours, ended up causing the Maderista Revolution and its end as President.

Ramon Corral

Vice President of Mexico between 1904 and 1911 with Porfirio Díaz, being placed by the president to stop the demonstrations. He had a reputation for being a brutal person and his arrival as vice president was viewed with bad eyes by the Mexican population, it is said that his rise was one of the reasons the revolution started.

Pascual Orozco

Mexican general and revolutionary was one of the first to rise up in arms against Porfirio. Although he was a revolutionary, he later faced Madero after he came to power, and ended up being Victoriano Huerta's Brigade Chief, betraying everything for which he had fought.

Bernardo Reyes

One of Porfirio's most trusted men who was governor of the Nuevo León region for about 20 years. After Madero's victory, he was one of the most relevant people for try to recover the coup government of Porfirio, becoming one of the main ideologues of the return to previous inequality.

To continue this lesson about the important characters of the Mexican Revolution, we must talk about those characters who had great relevance after the arrival of Madero to the power and defeat of Porfirio. All these characters were, to a greater or lesser extent, key to the advancement towards democracy in the nation and in the Mexico we know today.

Francisco I. Log

Mexican politician whose confrontation with the Porfirio regime he gave start of the Mexican Revolution. After the victory in the revolution he was president of Mexico for little more than a year, suffering an assassination at the hands of Victoriano Huerta. His government was marked by attempts to end the inequalities of the Porfirio administration.

Jose Maria Pino Suarez

Vice President of Mexico during the Madero government. Always loyal to Madero, both during his imprisonment and during the revolution, he was assassinated along with him for defending the same ideas and trying to stop Mexican corruption. Although his name has not gone down in history like Madero's, his management was key to revolutionary victory.

Pancho Villa

A key military figure against both Porfirio and Victoriano Huerta and against all those who defended a dictatorial regime. It has gone down in history as the great military man of the mexican revolution, but it is also interesting to know his role as the leader of the peasants and for his movements against the big businessmen friends of Porfirio.

Venustiano Carranza

The First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army he was a key figure in the second stage of the Mexican Revolution. After the victory against Victoriano he was appointed president of the Mexican nation, showing himself as a leader more Dialogical and fair than Madero, and his management being key to the beginning of a new democratic stage in the country Mexican.

Victoriano Huerta

President of Mexico for a year after the coup known as Decena Tragica that ended the life of Madero and several of his collaborators. The idea of ​​him was a return to the dictatorial government like Porfirio's, but his ideas faced the creation of the constitutionalists and he was defeated by them. Considered an opportunist, taking advantage of the war between Madero and Zapata to kill the former and seize power.

Emiliano Zapata

Military leader of the Mexicans and key figure to defend the peasant interests. His struggle went beyond the end of Porfirio, since his ideals were to defend the peasantry, which is why he faced both Porfirio and Madero and everyone else. politician who did not fulfill his promises to end Mexican inequality and being a firm defender of setting in the new Constitution the ideals to defend the farmers.

Alvaro Obregon

Mexican politician who participated in the Mexican Revolution and was president of Mexico between 1920 and 1924. Strong defender of the Constitution As a method to advance democracy, he faced the revolutionaries who caused the most problems, such as Pancho Villa, demonstrating that more than the revolution he was a defender of the Constitution and of the advance towards the democracy of the nation Mexican.