Gildardo MagaÃ±a

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

Life

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

As the troops of the " Convención de Aguascalientes " is not able to maintain long to Magaña involved in the armed resistance, as a brigadier general, he led the liberation army of Zapata. 1919 Zapata was murdered and Magaña elected by the " Zapatistas " as his successor. " After Zapata's death takes the diplomatically very skillful acting Gildardo Magaña (1891-1939 and he is said to have taught as a representative of the Zapatistas in 1911 Pancho Villa 's letter ). Whose role and supports General Obregon in the successful overthrow of Carranza 1920 Many Zapatistenvertreter be in the following years and decades can take over important government offices. (.... ) On 1.1.1994 the people of the state of Chiapas südmexikanischem rises under the name, Zapatista Army of National Liberation "( EZLN ). The rest is not least to us ".

One offered by Adolfo de la Huerta amnesty was accepted by the Zapatistas, whereupon Magaña was appointed major general of the Mexican army. In the 1920s, he headed various organizations who were trying to realize Zapata's ideas. 1935 appointed the new President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, the Partido Nacional Revolucionario the different currents ( "National Revolution Party," PNR) united, Magaña governor of Baja California. As Magaña died in 1939, he was governor of the state of Michoacán.

Works (selection)

Emiliano Zapata y el en México agrarismo. 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: SRIA. Grail. del Centro Nal. Orientador per Magaña.
Así Nacio 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 en México agrarismo ' y es el capítulo X de Dicha obra ". Publisher: Cuernavaca, Morelos: Instituto Estatal de Documentación de Morelos, 2001

Gildardo MagaÃ±a

Life

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