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The Mexican Revolution pt1: The end of the Porfiriato

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Revolutionary Situation in Rio Blanco

The employers association, the Centro Indusriale Puebla prohibits all labor organization on pain of dismissal. On January 7th, 5,000 textile workers gather outside the gates in Rio Blanco to prevent anyone from entering the company guards attack. The crowd responds by ransacking and burning the company shop,. marching on Ori Saba to demand their rights. Chills probably hundreds of people. And then the army went from street to street house to house in a hunt for workers. So this is a pre-revolutionary situation. You've got the army hunting now workers and shooting them in the yard of the company shop. That's not good. I don't know if it

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