They gloss over important events too quickly and are still using the weekly model where they present information as if it’s a newspaper headline instead of how a documentary should be. The weekly model worked with WW1 because they could focus on what is happening week by week but covering the entire Mexican Revolution in less than a half hour doesn’t work well at least not the way they are doing it.
My great grandfather, Gildardo Magaña taught Pancho Villa how to read when they were both imprisoned, he befriended him and then brokered the alliance between Zapata and Villa...he was Zapatas second man all along and took over the Zapatista movement when he was assassinated. We learned all this in the last decade and i as a history nerd have been living on cloud 9 ever since
"Brokered" no es una palabra, en este caso serio "Broke the alliance", pero aparte de eso tu ingles es muy bueno. Tienes pruebas de que fue tu tatara abuelo quien hizo todo esto?
Emiliano Zapata was one of the most interesting figures of the time period. He was an effective military commander, and his lack of political ambition was his main downfall as he didn't seize the moment to protect his revolution. But now he's regarded as a martyr across Mexico and remains a potent symbol of peasant socialist resistance against the rural elite.
@@el_equidistante obviously not everyone thinks of him as a martyr but many do in various parts of the country. I wasn’t saying everyone in Mexico loves the guy. Just that his deeds and his plan remain a powerful part of the mythos of the revolution for many. Obviously how one views him is also dependent on one’s class, political views, etc.
My great grandfather fought in Villa"s side, when I was 8 years old my father sent me to live with him and my great aunt(who never married in order to take care of him), he was around 109 years old, and still a was a vital man, he worked his piece of land and planted corn, beans and zucchini plants, he used to sit down in big stone just outside the kitchen early morning to enjoy the tender sun, he told me numerous stories of his life., but I was too young to appreciate, he had a bullet in his left leg and that was took out, he died in 1971 at age 111 , miss him.
As a mexican historian, I congratulate you guys for this documentary and the images, but you skipped the role of Ricardo Flores Magón, who was a journalist who put the seeds of the Revolution.
Magon is an underrated figure, definitely worth attention. I read some of his works on anarchism and political philosophy a while back, he's more marginal than he deserves to be.
yeah it was tough to squeeze in ten years of revolution and such a complex one at that into 20 minutes. BTW. over on our sister channel Real Time History we will cover the Mexican American War next spring - and that will be a longer documentary.
@@TheGreatWarfuck yeah! Santa anna deserves more people hating him imo, this will definetely help! You need to release it in spanish in your other channel as well!
@@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796 The loss of the territory is usually attributed to Santa Ana, but there were many more people involved in it. The lack of a national sentiment by the Mexicans of those days is certainly to blame. Take the case of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was lost without any resistance. California was already in the process of separating from Mexico due to the Centralist policies of Santa Ana, but at least Los Angeles tried to resist; it was lost, recovered, and lost again. When you think about it, it is fortunate Mexico wasn't split into more countries, as was the case of Central America or the Bolivarian countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia).
My grandfather was a mining engineer that moved to Mexico with his Swedish wife in the 1920's. He took me to the spot where Pancho Villa was assinated in Parral.
As a boy I saw Villa’s clothes, in a glass case, that he was wearing the day he was assassinated that day in Parral. That display was in the Castle of Chapultepec in Mexico City another historical site.
Why don’t you refer to his Swedish wife as your grandmother? Why can’t you spell the word”assassinated?” Why can’t you spell the word “Chihuahua,” after Parral,
Excellent documentary. One thing also, as a Mexican-American, I appreciated the correct pronunciation of all the names and locations. Well done all around.
Zapata is one of the most important figures in world history. His interest in the poor and to give land to those who had nothing is still remembered and loved today!
I highly recommend listening to Mike Duncan's, of History of Rome fame, series about the Mexican Revolution in his Revolutions podcast. Goes much deeper than this video.
Thanks for this , my grandmother was a young girl at this time in northern Mexico and I heard many firsthand stories about how her family was affected by this situation.
American Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson's comments on Madero were certainly, well, "out there". Never had heard his opinion before I watched your fine historical video.
I think is a bit wrong to fully ignore how important the uprising of Zapata against Diaz was, he himself said it “I was in peace, until the south rised up”
There is a story about Obregon hand lost in battle. They ask him how he recognize his hand among the corpses and body parts around the battlefield. “I threw a coin and the hand that caught it was mine”
A very complex process to squeeze in a 20 min. video, but it covered the essential issues. For a more extensive account I recommend "The Secret War in Mexico" by Friedrich Katz, which shows how much international intervention shaped the Mexican Revolution, since the fall of Porfirio Díaz to the murder of Carranza. It also explains how the invasion of Veracruz by the American Navy attempted and failed to stop the supply of German weapons to Huerta. What is here described as skirmishes between the American punitive expedition and Carranza's forces was actually a full scale battle at Carrizales, which swept an American regiment, and forced the withdrawal of the expedition. One may wonder why Woodrow Wilson didn't order a full scale invasion after that, but that's obviously what Germany would have liked. There were more important business to attend in Europe.
The novel All the Pretty Horses brought me to this video. As a U.S. citizen and a lover of my own country's history, I must admit that I'm woefully ignorant of the history of our neighbors to the south. Thanks for the video.
Thanks so much, Jesse. History has become my passion in my later years and I find mostly regurgitated, simple-minded, already well-known, and shallow historical documentaries on TH-cam. In contrast, I always learn something new from your detailed and in-depth analyses.
actually my great great grandfather, had this hacienda called Bustillos hacienda and they actually caught Pancho when he was a rascal (this is written in biographies of Pancho and its been documented), trying to steal a cow from them. Then, my great uncle, only being a boy (Pedro Zuloaga), told his dad to let him go. They did and later when he became "Pancho Villa" he never attacked that hacienda even though every single one of the surrounding ones and beyond were attacked. Francisco I. Madero and Villa at the beginning of the revolution held meetings in there. It still exists, I haven't been there tho'. my aunt fought with him as well. She even commanded west forces in the take of city of Parral, Chihuahua. Many of Mexican great grandparents fought in the revolution. My great grandfather was Diaz's violinist in his parties. He later even played in Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, he was called Ernesto Talavera.
John Kenneth Turner delves deeper into the Hacienda's situation in his book, Barbarous Mexico. There were big haciendas in which the Yaqui population was sent as an attempt of g3nocide. The conditions of these places was worse than that of slaves (even John himself says that) because the landowners didn't have any responsability towards the worker. There were instances in which people were sent to Haciendas as a punishment for crimes, and even situations in which people were basically kidnapped or scammed to get to work in these horrible places
Yes, sheltered children often still flirt with vicious murderers, if the murderers promise to put the unsuccesful on the throne at the expense of those who worked for what they have. And it works, socialism. Until you run out of other people's stuff to steal.
@ Un cobarde no hubiera llevado a sus soldados a Estados Unidos para atacarlos y un cobarde tampoco pelearía para mejorar las condiciones de los mexicanos. Cobardes son los políticos corruptos que dejan a los malandros hacer todo lo que se les pegue la gana.
Presently reading, in Spanish, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not gonna lie-all of this reads like the escapades of all the generals and colonels and corporals of the Buendia family. The betrayals, the victories, the defeats, the vendettas, the executions, the near executions, the hatred for the central government, the hatreds of the right against the left, and the left against the right. It’s all in this marvelous novel. And it’s all in the convoluted, windy history of the Mexican Revolution and civil war.
Marquez was Colombian but lived in Mexico for a while, however his characters are Colombian, I would recommend Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo instead. Or los de abajo
The first description on Villa was so disturbing it’s almost hilarious . “He is the most natural human being I ever saw, natural in the sense of being nearest to a wild animal. He says almost nothing and seems so quiet as to be almost diffident…If he isn’t smiling, he’s looking gentle. All except his eyes, which are never still and full of energy and brutality” 😮😂
It was a messy supply situation. They all got supplied by everyone depending on the day; Economic activity never really stopped so modern commodities kept going In like Cars and modern weaponry from overseas. Most Guns were probably civilian market as the war was a WW1/cowboy shootout Hybrid. Most the military grade weapons were probably hand me downs from the military arsenal assembled by Días during His modernization process, Días had amassed a decent combat potential for peacekeeping and paranoia that his economic success could be able to make México a hegemonic Challenger to the US again, He was ironically an almost pathological Francophile despite having Made himself a name in combat against the french in the 1860's Mexican-french War/Mexican civil war, he almost immediately repaired relations with France and started stocking european weapons (relation wich still exists) from them and the prussians whom he Also admired, in fact Germany produced some Mexican designs in German industrial centres that saw More action un Europe than in México like The innovative Autocharge Mondragón rifle; on top of that the US weapons market was always open and the US government often choose to sponsor one side or another
There was also a sadly forgotten massacre of Chinese immigrants in the city of Torreón in 1911. The revolutionary forces entered the city and executed hundreds of Chinese people, the population never recovered…
It wasn’t “the revolutionary forces” it was some bandits from Pancho villa that looted and killed Chinese migrants, they weren’t the actual Zapatistas from the south. Villa was just involved with whoever gave him the money and weapons, at some point had an alliance with the Americans. Hardly “revolutionary”
I knew about this for years and I was always met with disbelief when talking about it. I do got to say if you need to get rid of credit debt this was an easy way to do it.
Great video. One item that I think is overlook often with regard to the Punitive Expedition is that the US mobilized all of the National Guard for duty on the border. This mobilization provided an early opportunity to shake the dead wood from the National Guard, and greatly sped up the mobilization process when the US entered WWI in April 1917. IIRC, there was one unit of the Texas National Guard that was demobilized from border duty on Friday, and re mobilized for WWI on the following Monday.
When Wilson changed sides against Villa, he also had ammunition sold to Villa - all blanks. Villa lost the battle in Aguas Calientes shooting blanks. Wiping out most of his men and women. He rode north with the remaining few wounded and starving to hit the first American town he came to. Columbus NM. My father’s oldest brother rode with Villa at age 16.
My father told me I had a great grandfather in the revolution. He mentioned that religion was a factor as well. He mentioned Poncho Villa was a Protestant and they were fighting the Catholic Church as well.
YESSS! I have been hoping for a video on this topic since your original special on Mexico in the Great War 8 years ago. Thank you for your continued dedication to diligent education!
I've always wondered about Villa's use of trains. In John Reed's Mexico on Fire he mentions numerous battles where Villa moved his army on trains distances to surprise his adversary. Seemed highly effective. While reading T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom talking about roughly the same time period, the Arab Revolt was blowing up Turkish trains. I suspect the tactical use of trains diminished somewhat because of this vulnerability. (Though the Red Army used them during the Russian Civil War. Did the Whites blow up any Red Army trains?) After that it seemed trains still had an important role but behind the lines. What's critical to understanding what happened in Mexico during this period is the two to three million deaths many of them civilians. When I was a teacher 15 years ago I was told about a couple of very old veterans of Villa's army in northeast Los Angeles near the school. Likely they were already deceased. Viva Mexico!
Mexican Revolutionary veterans were oddly long lived tho. Its super common to come across bios of revolution veterans that lived past 100 years, and many of Them were children when the War started. So given the revolution ended 100 years ago, Its deffinitely possible there were veterans Alive there 15 years ago
There is a hypothesis that the U.S. allowed Mexican troops loyal to Venustiano Carranza, Villa’s rival, to pass through American territory. This would have helped Carranza defeat Villa's forces. That could be a reason for Villa's response.
Villa ultimately felt betrayed because the U.S. started helping his enemy. So he attacked the U.S. in hopes of getting a military response, which he did. His end goal was having the U.S. military fight carranzas forces so that he could get an edge over them once again.
Something interesting about the U.S invasion of Vera Cruz. A future admiral was sent in to help the troops. The troops were being taken out by snipers and sharp shooters. This fellow went out, waited to be shot at and returned fire. Taking out the shooter, he did this several times without being hit. He went on to win several Gold medals for sharp shooting in the Olympics. With his preference for accuracy and shooting. He eventually turned the U.S.S Washington into his own personal sniper rifle. Turning a Kongo class Battleship into a reef.
I think most people forget that every media source has a specific perspective, and it is based on the agenda they wishbone promote. As my father always said, "everyone has an axe to grind". That's been true since the dawn of time.
My Dad was born in 1896. He was a drummer boy for Francisco Villa's Ejercito del Norte until my grandfather had him join him to scout for General Pershing's military forces along the NM-Tx border.
My great grandma’s brother fought in the Mexican revolution I remember when I used to visit her in house in the deep Michoacán countryside she would talk about him and the crazy antics he got up to during the war and my great grandpa’s dad fought during that he never really talked about that time but he did talk a lot about when he came to the US durning the bracero program and used to say how FDR was his favorite president
In Tijuana there is a historical book that has Poncho Viva and George S Patton and three other. Patton was on that U S expedition into Mexico after the raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
My great- great grandfather came to Texas during the Revolution but wanted to go back to his family. Leaving my great grandfather by himself and the rest is history, and our familia’s have succeeded in America!
President Lazaro Cárdenas then came a few years later and said 'fck them anglo rights over oil' and expropriated petroleum. He's considered the final step to achieve the goals of the Revolution.
My great grandfather fought alongside pancho villa in northern Mexico I believe in Tamaulipas and he made back home to el bajío de Bonillas and also my gramma brother also fight along Pancho villa in the battle of Celaya in Guanajuato but I believe the United States sold bad bullets and he never made back home, but I’m so happy for this brave man that gave their lives for a more equitable Mexico still work to be done but let’s live by their example 🌟🌟🌟
What a nice job with this documentary, well explained and complete, only I would add 1 comment, in Mexico we are told that the revolution wasn't finished with Obregón, it was finished by Plutarco Elias Calles (21:57 next to Obregón) with the "maximato" period and the creation of the "partido nacional revolucionario" or PNR Which finally "pacified" the country and created many of the institutions that influence the mexican government to this day
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hello bro
What about the ties between the madero family and the us?
These 20-60 ish minute mini documentaries about a specific topic have been fantastic
I still hope for more longform or multi-part series to cover more important events in depth.
Viva Zapata!
@@glenn6583 VIVA !
They gloss over important events too quickly and are still using the weekly model where they present information as if it’s a newspaper headline instead of how a documentary should be. The weekly model worked with WW1 because they could focus on what is happening week by week but covering the entire Mexican Revolution in less than a half hour doesn’t work well at least not the way they are doing it.
My great grandfather fought along side Pancho Villa. My grandma still has photographs of both of them stand next to each other, rifles in hand
Please publish those pictures
Viva Mexico Cabrones !!!
Show us
I'm going to try guys but it's going to be a tough task to get my grandmother to dig for the picture lol
No way bro?! Post some pics on your account 👌🏽💯
My great grandfather, Gildardo Magaña taught Pancho Villa how to read when they were both imprisoned, he befriended him and then brokered the alliance between Zapata and Villa...he was Zapatas second man all along and took over the Zapatista movement when he was assassinated. We learned all this in the last decade and i as a history nerd have been living on cloud 9 ever since
Que chingon!
Alv que chido mi bisabuelo mendez tambien peleo fallecio a las 105 años
"Brokered" no es una palabra, en este caso serio "Broke the alliance", pero aparte de eso tu ingles es muy bueno. Tienes pruebas de que fue tu tatara abuelo quien hizo todo esto?
@HowDoYouTurnThisOn_ huh? Brokered is absolutely a word, it means negotiated or arranged
That’s quite some story and you do in fact brocker a deal
Emiliano Zapata was one of the most interesting figures of the time period. He was an effective military commander, and his lack of political ambition was his main downfall as he didn't seize the moment to protect his revolution. But now he's regarded as a martyr across Mexico and remains a potent symbol of peasant socialist resistance against the rural elite.
no he's not, you have no idea what you're talking about
@@el_equidistante he’s not interesting? Rofl ok whatever nice argument bro
@@sankarchaya he's not seen as a martyr across Mexico.
@@el_equidistante obviously not everyone thinks of him as a martyr but many do in various parts of the country. I wasn’t saying everyone in Mexico loves the guy. Just that his deeds and his plan remain a powerful part of the mythos of the revolution for many. Obviously how one views him is also dependent on one’s class, political views, etc.
@@el_equidistante yes he is, Mexican here
The prewar and interwar conflicts are some of the most forgotten in history. I am glad you guys talk about these in here
My great grandfather fought in Villa"s side, when I was 8 years old my father sent me to live with him and my great aunt(who never married in order to take care of him), he was around 109 years old, and still a was a vital man, he worked his piece of land and planted corn, beans and zucchini plants, he used to sit down in big stone just outside the kitchen early morning to enjoy the tender sun, he told me numerous stories of his life., but I was too young to appreciate, he had a bullet in his left leg and that was took out, he died in 1971 at age 111 , miss him.
As a mexican historian, I congratulate you guys for this documentary and the images, but you skipped the role of Ricardo Flores Magón, who was a journalist who put the seeds of the Revolution.
Magon is an underrated figure, definitely worth attention. I read some of his works on anarchism and political philosophy a while back, he's more marginal than he deserves to be.
yeah it was tough to squeeze in ten years of revolution and such a complex one at that into 20 minutes. BTW. over on our sister channel Real Time History we will cover the Mexican American War next spring - and that will be a longer documentary.
@@TheGreatWarfuck yeah! Santa anna deserves more people hating him imo, this will definetely help! You need to release it in spanish in your other channel as well!
@@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796 The loss of the territory is usually attributed to Santa Ana, but there were many more people involved in it. The lack of a national sentiment by the Mexicans of those days is certainly to blame. Take the case of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was lost without any resistance. California was already in the process of separating from Mexico due to the Centralist policies of Santa Ana, but at least Los Angeles tried to resist; it was lost, recovered, and lost again. When you think about it, it is fortunate Mexico wasn't split into more countries, as was the case of Central America or the Bolivarian countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia).
Diaz is the greatest president ever
My grandfather was a mining engineer that moved to Mexico with his Swedish wife in the 1920's. He took me to the spot where Pancho Villa was assinated in Parral.
As a boy I saw Villa’s clothes, in a glass case, that he was wearing the day he was assassinated that day in Parral.
That display was in the Castle of Chapultepec in Mexico City another historical site.
Why don’t you refer to his Swedish wife as your grandmother? Why can’t you spell the word”assassinated?” Why can’t you spell the word “Chihuahua,” after Parral,
super interesting, I think this is one of the most underrated wars/events in human history
This struggle is not remembered as I think it should be!
@@glenn6583 i agree
It was the first revolution in the 20th century, before the soviet and Chinese revolution
@@daveed4475 yes
America needs to learn from it.
This channel has been around for 10 years.
As long as that Revolution lasted
Gods, those times were a mess
Wow
Covering a war which lasted only four years.
I remember Indy Niedel
10 years and I am finally catching up :)
Excellent documentary. One thing also, as a Mexican-American, I appreciated the correct pronunciation of all the names and locations. Well done all around.
Zapata is one of the most important figures in world history. His interest in the poor and to give land to those who had nothing is still remembered and loved today!
What timing. I just downloaded "The Wind That Swept Mexico" last night. Excellent video.
I didn’t realize there was a film of it! I read the book. It was very hard to find - finally found an old copy on EBay.
My great-grandfather was a child when Pancho Villa invaded the US. He talked about for years.
Uh, sweetie, the US invaded Mexico First.....
Always been curious about the Mexican Revolution, just too lazy to dig into it. This was perfect. Thankyou.
It’s about 2 AM. Nothing better than an OG to do but watch OG content.
Great research and presentation.
I highly recommend listening to Mike Duncan's, of History of Rome fame, series about the Mexican Revolution in his Revolutions podcast. Goes much deeper than this video.
I was coming in here to recommend it! His revolution 9, 27 episodes of 40 or so minutes each.
Podcast formats are asinine.
Auch so ein Konflikt, den man eigentlich nur als Hintergrund des einen oder anderen Spaghetti-Westerns kennt. Danke für den Beitrag!
16:30 yeah…I’m not walking over that. I think I’ll just swim. lol
Thanks for this , my grandmother was a young girl at this time in northern Mexico and I heard many firsthand stories about how her family was affected by this situation.
American Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson's comments on Madero were certainly, well, "out there". Never had heard his opinion before I watched your fine historical video.
I think is a bit wrong to fully ignore how important the uprising of Zapata against Diaz was, he himself said it “I was in peace, until the south rised up”
There is a story about Obregon hand lost in battle.
They ask him how he recognize his hand among the corpses and body parts around the battlefield.
“I threw a coin and the hand that caught it was mine”
"I _threw_ a coin, and the hand that _caught_ it was mine."
English really isn't that hard, bro.
@@slappy8941 done
That's what he said!!!!@@slappy8941
A very complex process to squeeze in a 20 min. video, but it covered the essential issues. For a more extensive account I recommend "The Secret War in Mexico" by Friedrich Katz, which shows how much international intervention shaped the Mexican Revolution, since the fall of Porfirio Díaz to the murder of Carranza. It also explains how the invasion of Veracruz by the American Navy attempted and failed to stop the supply of German weapons to Huerta. What is here described as skirmishes between the American punitive expedition and Carranza's forces was actually a full scale battle at Carrizales, which swept an American regiment, and forced the withdrawal of the expedition. One may wonder why Woodrow Wilson didn't order a full scale invasion after that, but that's obviously what Germany would have liked. There were more important business to attend in Europe.
Thank you for this book recommendation 🙏
The novel All the Pretty Horses brought me to this video. As a U.S. citizen and a lover of my own country's history, I must admit that I'm woefully ignorant of the history of our neighbors to the south. Thanks for the video.
Thanks so much, Jesse. History has become my passion in my later years and I find mostly regurgitated, simple-minded, already well-known, and shallow historical documentaries on TH-cam. In contrast, I always learn something new from your detailed and in-depth analyses.
Thanks for yet another thorough and exciting episode guys!
I have only recently started watching this channel and am very impressed. Will watch more
welcome to the show
Much appreciated: Thanks for posting.
actually my great great grandfather, had this hacienda called Bustillos hacienda and they actually caught Pancho when he was a rascal (this is written in biographies of Pancho and its been documented), trying to steal a cow from them. Then, my great uncle, only being a boy (Pedro Zuloaga), told his dad to let him go. They did and later when he became "Pancho Villa" he never attacked that hacienda even though every single one of the surrounding ones and beyond were attacked. Francisco I. Madero and Villa at the beginning of the revolution held meetings in there. It still exists, I haven't been there tho'.
my aunt fought with him as well. She even commanded west forces in the take of city of Parral, Chihuahua. Many of Mexican great grandparents fought in the revolution. My great grandfather was Diaz's violinist in his parties. He later even played in Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, he was called Ernesto Talavera.
The three amigos were my favorite Mexican bandits
John Kenneth Turner delves deeper into the Hacienda's situation in his book, Barbarous Mexico. There were big haciendas in which the Yaqui population was sent as an attempt of g3nocide. The conditions of these places was worse than that of slaves (even John himself says that) because the landowners didn't have any responsability towards the worker. There were instances in which people were sent to Haciendas as a punishment for crimes, and even situations in which people were basically kidnapped or scammed to get to work in these horrible places
Excellent briefing of the Mexican revolution! Includes all the relevant items in a short amount of time. Excellent work! Mexico needed a revolution.
Awesome we get a redux video!
10:45 that’s my general 😢🫡 Viva México, Viva Zapata, Viva Villa, Viva la Revolución ! Great video as always.
Yes, sheltered children often still flirt with vicious murderers, if the murderers promise to put the unsuccesful on the throne at the expense of those who worked for what they have.
And it works, socialism. Until you run out of other people's stuff to steal.
Villa era un cobarde 🤬🤬🤬
@ Un cobarde no hubiera llevado a sus soldados a Estados Unidos para atacarlos y un cobarde tampoco pelearía para mejorar las condiciones de los mexicanos. Cobardes son los políticos corruptos que dejan a los malandros hacer todo lo que se les pegue la gana.
Presently reading, in Spanish, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not gonna lie-all of this reads like the escapades of all the generals and colonels and corporals of the Buendia family. The betrayals, the victories, the defeats, the vendettas, the executions, the near executions, the hatred for the central government, the hatreds of the right against the left, and the left against the right. It’s all in this marvelous novel. And it’s all in the convoluted, windy history of the Mexican Revolution and civil war.
Marquez was Colombian but lived in Mexico for a while, however his characters are Colombian, I would recommend Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo instead. Or los de abajo
The first description on Villa was so disturbing it’s almost hilarious .
“He is the most natural human being I ever saw, natural in the sense of being nearest to a wild animal. He says almost nothing and seems so quiet as to be almost diffident…If he isn’t smiling, he’s looking gentle. All except his eyes, which are never still and full of energy and brutality” 😮😂
Another wonderful historical coverage episode shared by an amazing RTH channel ..thanks for sharing
My Grandmother as a child sang Mexican revolutionary songs to the customers at their restaurant they owned. Great video I never knew these things.
Whom supplied both sides with arms and ammo? One side usually has control of industry, so the B side needs outside aid for logistics.
It was a messy supply situation. They all got supplied by everyone depending on the day; Economic activity never really stopped so modern commodities kept going In like Cars and modern weaponry from overseas. Most Guns were probably civilian market as the war was a WW1/cowboy shootout Hybrid. Most the military grade weapons were probably hand me downs from the military arsenal assembled by Días during His modernization process, Días had amassed a decent combat potential for peacekeeping and paranoia that his economic success could be able to make México a hegemonic Challenger to the US again, He was ironically an almost pathological Francophile despite having Made himself a name in combat against the french in the 1860's Mexican-french War/Mexican civil war, he almost immediately repaired relations with France and started stocking european weapons (relation wich still exists) from them and the prussians whom he Also admired, in fact Germany produced some Mexican designs in German industrial centres that saw More action un Europe than in México like The innovative Autocharge Mondragón rifle; on top of that the US weapons market was always open and the US government often choose to sponsor one side or another
There was also a sadly forgotten massacre of Chinese immigrants in the city of Torreón in 1911. The revolutionary forces entered the city and executed hundreds of Chinese people, the population never recovered…
So did the federals and every xenophobe in the city. Everyone just wanted Chinese blood that day.
@@melelconquistador indeed, anti Asian xenophobia was still present well into the 20’s
It wasn’t “the revolutionary forces” it was some bandits from Pancho villa that looted and killed Chinese migrants, they weren’t the actual Zapatistas from the south. Villa was just involved with whoever gave him the money and weapons, at some point had an alliance with the Americans. Hardly “revolutionary”
Damn
I knew about this for years and I was always met with disbelief when talking about it. I do got to say if you need to get rid of credit debt this was an easy way to do it.
Viva México! Viva la Revolución!! 🇲🇽
Arriba de Mexicanian
Lastima q no se murieran muchos mas mexicanos en esa revolucion, creo q hoy dia Mexico hubiese sido otro pais y nó lo q es actualmente...
no... la revolucion causo daños irreparables
@@antoniocappione4259jajajaja
Thanks for the history lesson. It answers a few questions about the life of my grandfather.
Where I live, there is a Mexican restaurant called Zapata and it is filled with pictures of Emiliano and the Mexican Revolution.
His army were called los dorados
When Díaz was overthrown in 1911, the Northern Division did not yet exist, as it was formed in September 1913.
this is a very interesting period in the history of N America, that is frequently swept under the carpet.
Great video. One item that I think is overlook often with regard to the Punitive Expedition is that the US mobilized all of the National Guard for duty on the border. This mobilization provided an early opportunity to shake the dead wood from the National Guard, and greatly sped up the mobilization process when the US entered WWI in April 1917. IIRC, there was one unit of the Texas National Guard that was demobilized from border duty on Friday, and re mobilized for WWI on the following Monday.
It was a total failure of an expedition however
@@ericktellez7632 It depends on what you consider the primary purpose to be.
@@ericktellez7632a relative of Carranza wrote an account of the expedition and described it as "more recreative than punitive"
Never liked history that much as a kid but the older i get...no matter what or where...history repeats itself..
And its scary.
Nice video this is a topic I didn't know much about before.
Gracias compa, buen video
When Wilson changed sides against Villa, he also had ammunition sold to Villa - all blanks. Villa lost the battle in Aguas Calientes shooting blanks. Wiping out most of his men and women. He rode north with the remaining few wounded and starving to hit the first American town he came to. Columbus NM. My father’s oldest brother rode with Villa at age 16.
The blanks sale can be found in some American and many Mexican history books.
u going to Cover the Cristiada? the Religions war of the Secular government against the Church?
The movie wasnt enough?
@@Josh93B93 No
My grandmother dated a soldier from the era of pancho villa and she had told me some amazing stories before she passed away
Excellent films. These should be preserved in AVI and MLB formats.
Should do a docu on the Cristero War. I have family who fought in that war and the stories are crazy
My father told me I had a great grandfather in the revolution. He mentioned that religion was a factor as well. He mentioned Poncho Villa was a Protestant and they were fighting the Catholic Church as well.
My great grandfather used to sneak across the border to the Mexican side to fight for Pancho Villa when he was young.
Great documentary video!
YESSS! I have been hoping for a video on this topic since your original special on Mexico in the Great War 8 years ago. Thank you for your continued dedication to diligent education!
I learned a lot from this. Thank you
I've always wondered about Villa's use of trains. In John Reed's Mexico on Fire he mentions numerous battles where Villa moved his army on trains distances to surprise his adversary. Seemed highly effective. While reading T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom talking about roughly the same time period, the Arab Revolt was blowing up Turkish trains. I suspect the tactical use of trains diminished somewhat because of this vulnerability. (Though the Red Army used them during the Russian Civil War. Did the Whites blow up any Red Army trains?) After that it seemed trains still had an important role but behind the lines. What's critical to understanding what happened in Mexico during this period is the two to three million deaths many of them civilians. When I was a teacher 15 years ago I was told about a couple of very old veterans of Villa's army in northeast Los Angeles near the school. Likely they were already deceased. Viva Mexico!
Mexican Revolutionary veterans were oddly long lived tho. Its super common to come across bios of revolution veterans that lived past 100 years, and many of Them were children when the War started.
So given the revolution ended 100 years ago, Its deffinitely possible there were veterans Alive there 15 years ago
Loved this episode, well structured. It's prety hard to cover this period of mexican history, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
i like this channel so much i actually watch the in video ads!
There is a hypothesis that the U.S. allowed Mexican troops loyal to Venustiano Carranza, Villa’s rival, to pass through American territory. This would have helped Carranza defeat Villa's forces. That could be a reason for Villa's response.
Villa ultimately felt betrayed because the U.S. started helping his enemy. So he attacked the U.S. in hopes of getting a military response, which he did. His end goal was having the U.S. military fight carranzas forces so that he could get an edge over them once again.
Those have to be the most majestic sombreros I’ve ever seen in my life 😮
Something interesting about the U.S invasion of Vera Cruz. A future admiral was sent in to help the troops. The troops were being taken out by snipers and sharp shooters. This fellow went out, waited to be shot at and returned fire. Taking out the shooter, he did this several times without being hit. He went on to win several Gold medals for sharp shooting in the Olympics. With his preference for accuracy and shooting. He eventually turned the U.S.S Washington into his own personal sniper rifle. Turning a Kongo class Battleship into a reef.
Without looking it up, I'm going to assume that that future admiral was Willis Lee.
Please go and on! Thank you.
Not a single mention of the Irish explosives expert, the Mexican bandit or the two trains (one filled with explosives) colliding with each other?
Great show and thanks for the info 👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
Fascinating!
Damn… can’t believe I’m related to Victoriano Huerta. So surreal seeing him in history books and mini docu series.
🤜🏽💙🤛🏽Y la revolución sigue 🇲🇽 pancho villa y 🇲🇽Emiliano Zapata viven Eternamente 🇲🇽
Love all this information....thank you
My family is from the same state as Zapata . We all have the same fighting spirit
I think most people forget that every media source has a specific perspective, and it is based on the agenda they wishbone promote. As my father always said, "everyone has an axe to grind". That's been true since the dawn of time.
Jesse, Very interesting. THANKS!
I feel this would make a great tv show. If there was one let me know.
My Dad was born in 1896. He was a drummer boy for Francisco Villa's Ejercito del Norte until my grandfather had him join him to scout for General Pershing's military forces along the NM-Tx border.
Dr Khankhoje an Indian agro scientist participated and
fought in Mexican Revolution
My great grandma’s brother fought in the Mexican revolution I remember when I used to visit her in house in the deep Michoacán countryside she would talk about him and the crazy antics he got up to during the war and my great grandpa’s dad fought during that he never really talked about that time but he did talk a lot about when he came to the US durning the bracero program and used to say how FDR was his favorite president
it's crazy how chaotic and blood this all was yet it's barely even remembered
it’s definitely remembered in Mexico
@@richbandicoot i mean outside mexico
@@micahistorywhy would the world care
That's like saying why dont they teach more about the War of 1812 in Indonesia
@@The_king567 because it was a massive and interesting war
Great episode thank you!
In Tijuana there is a historical book that has Poncho Viva and George S Patton and three other. Patton was on that U S expedition into Mexico after the raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
While I'm certainly no fan of Villa's actions against New Mexico, I will give him credit for owning up to his limitations in the political field.
There is a letter from Villa and Zapata, and Villa describes himself and the revolutionaries as:
"We, the ignorant men who wage war"
My great- great grandfather came to Texas during the Revolution but wanted to go back to his family. Leaving my great grandfather by himself and the rest is history, and our familia’s have succeeded in America!
President Lazaro Cárdenas then came a few years later and said 'fck them anglo rights over oil' and expropriated petroleum. He's considered the final step to achieve the goals of the Revolution.
Wait, I swear I had seen a video of the same name and the same thumbnail before, did you guys remake it?
My great grandfather fought alongside pancho villa in northern Mexico I believe in Tamaulipas and he made back home to el bajío de Bonillas and also my gramma brother also fight along Pancho villa in the battle of Celaya in Guanajuato but I believe the United States sold bad bullets and he never made back home, but I’m so happy for this brave man that gave their lives for a more equitable Mexico still work to be done but let’s live by their example 🌟🌟🌟
Wait. What happened to the original video?
Shows how much TH-cam has retconned their policy in a few years
this is the remastered version, the old one is unlisted. TH-cam gets a headache when you have two identically named videos online at the same time.
Very interesting once again.
Never disarm for the state's promises
Educational. Thank you.
Smooth segue into the Ground News sponsored ad.
Thank you!
Their fits were fire
Much appreciated! Viva 🇲🇽
What a nice job with this documentary, well explained and complete, only I would add 1 comment, in Mexico we are told that the revolution wasn't finished with Obregón, it was finished by Plutarco Elias Calles (21:57 next to Obregón) with the "maximato" period and the creation of the "partido nacional revolucionario" or PNR Which finally "pacified" the country and created many of the institutions that influence the mexican government to this day
Emiliano Zapata is a great hero! From Brazil we salute the Mexican people for their courage!