El impacto del maderismo en Baja California, 1911

• Autores: Marco Antonio Samaniego López
• Localización: Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de México, ISSN-e 2448-5004, ISSN 0185-2620, Nº. 18, 1998, págs. 89-120
• Idioma: español
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  • The impact of maderismo in Baja California, 1911
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  • This paper focuses on the fact that the armed movement which took place in 1911 in Baja California, was not a "magonista" movement, as many authors have said. Its a fact that the participants that captured Mexicali, El Alamo and Tijuana, did not distinguish the difference between Francisco I. Madero and Ricardo Flores Magón proposals, to the degree that when Madero won at Ciudad Juarez a great number of those that went to Baja California, considered that the war was over. In fact, many of them went to Ciudad Juarez, while others sought protection in the peace treaty signed at the aforementioned border city.

    On the other hand, since April 1911 there were demonstrations in favor of Madero in the port of Ensenada, some of which had asked for the destitution of the military and political head, Celso Vega, as well as a series of civic minded proposals, one of which was that a native identified with the region's problems be head of the local government. On their part, a group of Mexicali residents that went to Calexico, California, when Madero won, declared themselves followers of Madero and tried to have elections to name a political subprefect. Nevertheless, Rodolfo L. Gallego, a Mexicali resident that took up arms since January 1911 drew out the banner of the Plan of San Luis and renounced any relation with the PLM (Mexican Liberal Party), was elected for said responsibility. This event shows that the men that formed the armed group in the whole were not magonistas, but that they had diverse objetives and acted in conjunction with them, in concordance with the opportunities that were presented to them.