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July 30, 2023

Bad Mexicans

I just finished listening to Bad Mexicans and found it fascinating. In Mexico, main streets in cities are often named Revolucion de 1910 and others are named after revolutionary heros.
This book got me wondering about the unappreciated side of Canadian history, and I went looking for comparable audio books about our conflicts and although there are many books about the Mexican Revolution and its importance to world history, I could not find more than one or two about our North West Rebellion. I wonder why?
Canadians tend to have a rather dismissive attitude to Mexicans but this book dispels the stereotypes and is an eye-opener.

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magon, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Diaz, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of US authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The US Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice, as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country.
But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world's first social revolution of the twentieth century.
Taking listeners to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of US history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas' story integral to modern American life.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Bad-Mexicans-Audiobook/B0B9T4V1VR

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