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Casasola Archive. The Casasola Archive is a photographic archive of Mexican history and culture, the foundational collection of the photo archive, Fototeca Nacional, administered by the Mexican government. The archive contains important historical photos from the regime of Porfirio Diaz and the Mexican Revolution.
Agustín Víctor Casasola (28 July 1874 – 30 March 1938) was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers. [3] Casasola began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial , eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in the early 1900s. [4]
The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history" [ 9 ] and resulted in the destruction of the Federal Army , its replacement by a revolutionary army ...
Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (1911–1913) The Plan of San Luis Potosí ( Spanish: Plan de San Luis) is a key political document of the Mexican Revolution, written by presidential candidate Francisco I. Madero following his escape from jail. He had challenged President Porfirio Díaz in the 1910 presidential elections, when Díaz ...
The National Palace, a target of the rebel artillery fire. There were dead bodies in the zócalo and the capital's streets. [1]The Ten Tragic Days (Spanish: La Decena Trágica) during the Mexican Revolution is the name given to the multi-day coup d'état in Mexico City by opponents of Francisco I. Madero, the democratically elected president of Mexico, between 9–19 February 1913.
The United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution was varied and seemingly contradictory, first supporting and then repudiating Mexican regimes during the period 1910–1920. [ 1] For both economic and political reasons, the U.S. government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, but could withhold official recognition.
The Mexican Revolution was the costliest conflict in Mexican history. [ 45 ] The overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Díaz caused political instability, with many contending factions and regions. [ 27 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The Catholic Church and the Díaz government had come to an informal modus vivendi in which the state formally maintained the ...
12 killed. ~10 wounded. 1 captured. The Magonista rebellion of 1911 was an early uprising of the Mexican Revolution organized by the Liberal Party of Mexico ( Spanish: Partido Liberal Mexicano, PLM), which was only successful in northern Baja California. It is named after Ricardo Flores Magón, one of the leaders of the PLM.