The Pen That Set Mexico on Fire: The Betrayal of Ricardo Flores Magón During the Revolution
The Pen That Set Mexico on Fire: The Betrayal of Ricardo Flores Magón During the Revolution
Ricardo Flores Magón, a journalist, published the most prominent resistance newspaper, Regeneración, in pre-revolutionary Mexico. From the United States, via railroads, Magón’s ideas and publication reached every village, and every community. All the future leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) read Regeneración and incorporated indigenous rights, land reform, worker rights, and many more revolutionary principles into their movements. True to his calling, hunted both in Mexico and the United States, Magón died in a U.S. prison, shunted as an anarchist.