From the beginnings of radicalization in Mexico City to their exile in the United States and Canada, the story of the Magonistas is a roller coaster of radical, underground agitation. Lytle Hernandez beautifully lays the groundwork for a thorough understanding of the role of Flores Magón and his followers.
Flores Magón’s weekly La Regeneración calling out the Diaz regime’s crimes, corruption, and illegitimacy so rankled the regime that La Junta became an internationally hunted group of “bad Mexicans.”
The history of the Mexican Revolution cannot be told without understanding the role of Ricardo Flores Magón, his brother Enrique and the core revolutionaries of La Junta that laid the intellectual foundation for ousting the Dictator Porfirio Diaz.
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. Taking readers 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 U.S. 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. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases.īut the magonistas persevered. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, 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. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States.
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