The Wind That Swept Mexico by Anita Brenner

Author:Anita Brenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

The Photographic History of the Mexican Revolution

1. In the year 1910 there was a Strong Man of the Americas advertised in all the world, and his name was Porfirio Díaz of Mexico …

2. The aged man had been sitting for thirty-four years—with one brief interim—in the presidential chair. Round him, like cherubim and seraphim in a religious picture, there was a group of courtly, elderly men who had long since done away with politics and devoted themselves to nourishing business. This, they said, was the true science of government; problems of state were handled scientifically; they were called the científicos …

(Standing, at the right of Díaz, is Limantour. Ramón Corral is sitting at the right hand of Díaz.)

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