What Areas Were Under the Influence of the Liberal Group?

He Development of the areas of influence of liberalism in Mexico Occurred throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beginning in Mexico City and later expanding to other regions such as Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Veracruz.

Liberalism was a political trend that developed and expanded in Mexico during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this period, he advocated the creation of a secular state (separate from the Roman Catholic Church), for the abolition of the corporate privileges of the Church, military bodies and indigenous communities and for the establishment of an educational system that Was not under the control of the Catholic Church.

In this sense, the liberalism of the nineteenth century considered that the fact that certain groups were privileged represented an obstacle to the progress and economic, political and social development of the country.

Thus, liberalism sought to subtract power from the Catholic Church through various plans, for example: the implementation of an educational system that any citizen could access.

In the same way, the liberal party had as its object to obtain that the members of the indigenous population of Mexico were considered citizens.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the second wave of liberalism emerged, led by Camilo Arriga and Ricardo Flores Magón, founders of the Mexican Liberal Party, who sought to overthrow Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's president for the time.

Zones under the influence of liberalism

Mexico City

During the 19th century

Mexican liberalism was highly influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment proposed by Montesquieu, Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas and other European thinkers.

The ideas propagated by the Enlightenment were welcomed in different areas of Mexico, especially in the Federal District of Mexico, nowadays Mexico City.

During the 20th century

At the end of the 19th century, Porfirio Diaz came to the government, claiming to be liberal, but continued with conservative practices.

When Diaz's government was transformed into a dictatorial regime, a group of citizens opposed to it formed the Mexican Liberal Party (August 1900), which had as its object to overthrow Porfirio Diaz and to return to Mexicans the rights that had been Snatched during the Porfiriato.

The purpose was to establish at one time an economic system that would put Mexico at the head of the other nations.

In 1911, this party was influential in the northern part of Baja California, including the territories of Tijuana, Mexicali and Tecate.

In Mexico City, Jesús Flores Magón, Ricardo Flores Magón and Enrique Flores Magón created the daily Regeneración, which allowed to spread the ideas of this party in the capital city.

In addition, the organizing committee of the Mexican Liberal Party also worked from Los Angeles, California, where a manifesto was published inviting Mexicans to fight for the rights violated during the Porfiriato, taking as its motto"Tierra y Libertad."

Finally, the Liberal militia was active between 1910 and 1913, especially in Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Veracruz.

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