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 Editorials | Opinions | December 2007 
3 Mexicos Must Become Just 1
 Lorenzo G. LaFarelle - El Paso Times
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 |  | The three Mexicos: the Criollo Mexico, the Mestizo Mexico, and the Indian Mexico, has to be made into one Mexico. |  | |
The Mexican Revolution of 1910:
Although the dates generally assigned to this "blood-bath" have been 1940 to 1920, it really should go on the mid-1930s; for it was in the mid-1930s that the government under Gen. Lazaro Cardenas - then president - had to fight the last insurgent chieftain from the state of San Luis Potosi, Gen. Saturnino Cedillo.
Gen. Cedillo was an ultra rightist (reactionary), and, furthermore, under the pay of American oil interests to cause trouble for Gen. Cardenas.
And, while there are many names associated with this bloody period, we can dwell on only those most prominent:
• El Apostol Francisco I. Madero: Effective suffrage, no re-election.
• President (dictator), Gen. Porfirio Diaz, the northern rebel chieftain, general?
• Francisco "Pancho" Villa, "the centaur of the north."
• Emiliano Zapata: Father of the Constitution of 1917.
• Gen. Victoriano Huerta, el carnicero - "the butcher."
• Gen. Alvaro Obregon from Sonora, the one who defeated Pancho Villa and "la division del norte" at the Battles of Celaya in Guanajuato in 1915.
There were many more, but, maybe, these are the better-known and/or the ones who may truly have done more for "la Revolucion."
The truism: "Las revoluciones devoran a sus propios hijos," "Revolutions end up devouring their own children (their creators)," is certainly true of the above - and many others in the Mexican Revolution - for they all "perished by the sword."
According to some reputable historians, we can truly say that the Revolution of 1910 is "Mexico's 2nd War of Independence," waged in major part by the true Mexicans, the mestizos.
The Revolution was - and still is - an attempt to bring Mexico into the 20th century, and, maybe, to make it more truly democratic, for it was all but that for 500 years: The Aztec period, the Spanish period (la colonia), and the Criollo period: 1821 to 1910s and beyond.
An attempt had been made to bring Mexico into modern times with the Constitution of 1857, but it was all theory, not actual practice.
Mexico needed to break away from the "feudal state" it had become since the advent of the Spanish peninsulares.
All Mexicos - the three Mexicos: the Criollo, (white) Mexico, the Mestizo (half-breed races) Mexico, and the "Mexico Indigena" Indian Mexico, un-integrated and un-acculturated Mexico, had - and has to be - made into one Mexico.
The three Mexicos - and more - have to be forged into one Mexico.
Basically, we can say that the basic purpose of the Revolution of 1910 was to make one Mexico out of three Mexicos; for its basic philosophy has to be:
"Somos Uno. Uno Somos. Somos Uno."
"Somos uno en el origen." "We are one, origin-wise."
"Uno somos en el peligro." "One we are in our common danger."
And "Somos Uno en la esperanza," "One we are in our hope for a better life."
Lorenzo G. LaFarelle is a retired educator who taught for 56 years, 34 of them in El Paso. |
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