The Plan of San Luis Potosi
In September 1910, Porfirio Díaz, Mexico’s longtime president, staged the Fiestas del Centenario, or Centennial Festivals, to mark the hundredth anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. Designed to showcase Mexico’s development into a modern nation, the celebrations were held amid widespread social unrest.
Only a few months later the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero issued his «Plan of San Luis Potosí», challenging Díaz’s thirty-year virtual dictatorship and calling for countrywide insurrection to begin on November 20, 1910.
This date is now considered to be the start of the Mexican Revolution.
Dean Chamberlain
23 23UTC agosto 23UTC 2014 @ 22:13 10Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:13:48 +000048.
Hi Walter,
So what was the plan? And how did he call on the people to rise up – how were they supposed to carry it out – gather into small armed groups or…? Interesting.
Dean