Jesús Flores Magón

Jesús Flores Magon ( born January 6, 1871 in San Antonio Eloxochitlán [ wp 1] in Oaxaca, † December 7, 1930 in Mexico City) was a Mexican journalist and politician.

The parents of Jesus Flores Magon were Margarita Magon and Lieutenant Colonel Teodoro Flores. His siblings were Cipriano (* 1872, † 1872), Ricardo (* 1874, † 1922) and Enrique Flores Magon (* 1877, † 1954).

Jesús Flores Magon lived since his childhood in Mexico City, where he worked alongside his studies and later supported his brothers. In 1892 he took part in protest parades against the rule of Porfirio Díaz. In 1897 he completed his studies with the admission to the bar. With his brother Ricardo, he founded the magazine Regeneración [ wp 2], which was first published on 7 August 1900, Jesús Flores Magon claim to be the seat editor. In the newspaper leveled at the judiciary system of the porfiriato, Jesús Flores Magon repeatedly brought to jail. Jesús Flores Magon took in 1901 as a delegate to the conventions of the liberals of San Luis Potosi in part.

Jesús Flores Magon 1902 married Clara Hong, reduced its political commitment and has been deported from Mexico to the U.S., where Jesús Flores Magon not followed the path of his brothers to anarchism.

In 1910 he returned to Mexico and drew up a constitution for the overthrow of Porfirio Díaz.

In 1911 he moved with Antonio I. Villarreal [ wp 3], the Mexico City edition of the newspaper Regeneración. While his brothers the issue of Los Angeles from Regeneración laid, who had dedicated to anarchism.

Francisco Madero called Jesús Flores Magon to Regierungsminsiter in his Cabinet, where to November 1912, he acts from February as State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. As the management of the Secretaría de Justicia e Instrucción Pública he was offered Jesús Flores Magon resigned.

At the beginning of the military coup of Victoriano Huerta was exiled to the United States Jesús Flores Magon February 1913. 1813 sparked Huerta on the parliament and ordered the arrest of about 80 parliamentarians under the pretext that they had violated the separation of executive and judicial. Huerta violated the Constitution in relation to internal security, defense, budget and announced that on October 26, 1913 elections were declared. On October 30, 1913, the Partido Liberal Mexicano " Liberal Independiente ," Manuel Calero y Sierra [ wp 4] appointed Jesús Flores Magon presidential candidate and a candidate for the vice-presidency. Manuel Calero y Sierra was accused by the government of Venustiano Carranza to be a traitor. Therefore Jesús Flores Magon spent the term of Carranza 1914 to 1920 in the United States of America.

As Jesús Flores Magon returned to Mexico he exercised the profession of lawyer.