Memorias De Un Mexicano

Memories of a Mexican

Film starts showing a Mexico City where the "Porfirian peace" prevails. We see a thriving city, the inhabitants of the city attending bullfights, parades, bazaars and dances.

There are scenes of trams burritos, channels were the roads at that time to transport food from Xochimilco and La Viga, trains, which are an essential part of the armed struggle and sometimes the symbol of the struggle, carriages people well and using donkeys people. The bombastic centennial celebrations in 1910 give an idea of the opulence of the regime.

Memories of a Mexican allows us to see the main characters of the Revolution, Madero, Carranza, Villa, Zapata, Obregón, Calles in the summits of the armed movement now. The military mobilization of federal, constitutionalists and conventioneers reveal to men without being aware of the milestone in which they were immersed, act naturally. The murders of Madero, Carranza, Zapata and Villa; national reconstruction from Obregon government; the "Maximato" with its three presidents, Emilio Portes Gil, Pascual Ortiz Rubio and Abelardo L. Rodríguez; the presidency of Cardenas and the oil expropriation, ending with the government of Avila Camacho.

During the documentary, is mentioned Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada was born in Xalapa, Veracruz on April 24, 1823, and died on April 22, 1889 in New York where he had lived in exile in Mexico. It was a Mexican politician and president of Mexico between 1872 and 1876.

Adolfo de la Huerta, to assume the interim presidency of the country as a result of the movement of Agua Prieta, negotiated the surrender of Pancho Villa. Villa signed agreements Sabinas, Coahuila Sabinas, undertaking to disarm and to withdraw to the Hacienda de Canutillo (Durango), the government granted ownership for their services to the revolution.

Álvaro Obregón became president of Mexico and promoted some plans to assassinate Pancho Villa. During the delahuertista Rebellion, fearing that Pancho Villa again take up arms, they decided to kill him. Pancho Villa was ambushed and assassinated the afternoon of July 20, 1923, on his way to a family party in Parral.

The war by the government took ruthless profiles in the north. The gonzalista Jesus Guajardo led to believe that Zapata was unhappy with Carranza and would be willing to join him. After a series of talks, agreement in which Guajardo would join Zapata was taken. So they agreed to meet at the Hacienda de Chinameca, Morelos, on April 10, 1919, where he was to be killed cruelly by shooters.

In our opinion, the last scenes edited this documentary does not compare to the first, since, due to the death of Salvador Toscano, the man who started this great work, the same effect was not achieved.

Over the years the monumentality of the work grows. Having been privileged witness of national events of the early twentieth century,

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