Gildardo Magaña

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Gildardo Magaña

Gildardo Magaña (born March 7, 1891 in Zamora , † December 13, 1939 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican author, politician, revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalist .

Life

Gildardo Magaña had eleven siblings. In Philadelphia (USA) he attended Temple College and in 1908 traveled back to Mexico, where he lived in Mexico City. There he got a job as an accountant for the company "Rojas & Taboada" for a few months. In Mexico City he made the acquaintance of anarchosyndicalists and anarchists who stood in opposition to the dictator Porfirio Díaz . In 1909 he joined the Partido Nacional Antirreeleccionista (PNA), a Mexican political party founded in 1909 by FI Madero. After the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution , he led a plot against Diaz in Tacubaya , a district in Mexico City, which was discovered early on. Magaña fled to the state of Morelos and joined the revolutionaries of Emiliano Zapata (the "Zapatistas"). After Francisco Madero was elected president, Magaña led a group of "Zapatistas" for negotiations between Zapata and Madero. He was arrested shortly thereafter and met Pancho Villa , whom he taught reading and writing , in prison . He also informed him about the socialist and anarchist world of ideas and about Zapata's plan for Ayala . After the assassination of Madero, Victoriano Huerta became president and Magaña returned to Zapata after his release from prison and continued his resistance against the "new dictatorship". After the fall of Huerta, he became one of Zapata's deputies at the Convención de Aguascalientes , a congress at the time of the Mexican Revolution, in 1916 he was a brief deputy in the Interior Ministry Secretaría de Gobernación .

Since the troops of the "Convención de Aguascalientes" could not hold out long, Magaña took part in the armed resistance, as brigadier general he led the Liberation Army of Zapata. In 1919 Zapata was murdered and Magaña was elected as his successor by the "Zapatistas". “ After Zapata's death, Gildardo Magaña (1891–1939; he is said to have taught Pancho Villa to write as a representative of the Zapatistas in 1911) took on his role and supported General Obregon in the successful overthrow of Carranzas in 1920. Many Zapatistas were to be represented in the following Can hold important government offices for years and decades. (....) On January 1st, 1994, the people in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas rose up under the name of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The rest is not least up to us ”.

An amnesty offered by Adolfo de la Huerta was accepted by the Zapatistas, whereupon Magaña was appointed division general of the Mexican army . In the 1920s he led various organizations that tried to implement Zapata's ideas. In 1935, the new President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río , who united the various currents of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario ("National Revolutionary Party", PNR), appointed Magaña as governor of Baja California . When Magaña died in 1939, he was governor of the state of Michoacán .

Works (selection)

  • Emiliano Zapata y el agrarismo en México . Publisher: Comisión Nacional para las Celebraciones del 175 Aniversario de la Independencia Nacional y 75 Aniversario de la Revolución Mexicana. Mexico City, 1985 (reprint). ISBN 968-80527-8-7
  • Gildardo Magaña: breves datos biográficos . Publisher: Sría. Grail. del Centro Nal. Orientador Pro Magaña.
  • Así nació la División del Norte Publisher: SEP / Conasupo, Mexico 1980
  • Valentín López González , title: "La toma de Cuernavaca ... forma parte del libro 'Emiliano Zapata y el agrarismo en México' y es el capítulo X de dicha obra". Publisher: Cuernavaca, Morelos: Instituto Estatal de Documentación de Morelos, 2001

further reading

  • John Womack: Zapata and the Mexican revolution , Vintage 1968.
  • Valentín López González, Los Compañeros de Zapata . Pages 122 to 127. Ediciones del Gobierno del Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos edición. México, 1980.
  • Jason Wehling: Anarchist Influences on the Mexican Revolution . Available online.
  • Lowell L. Blaisdell, The Desert Revolution: Baja California, 1911 . Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography and further information about G. Magana . With photos. English, accessed April 13, 2011
  2. ↑ Quote from Outlaw Legend ( memento of the original from January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 13, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siebdruckeria.at
personal data
SURNAME Magaña, Gildardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerda Magaña, Gildardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican revolutionary and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1939
Place of death Mexico city