WHAT AREAS WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE LIBERAL GROUP? - HISTORY - 2025

The development of the zones of influence of liberalism in Mexico occurred throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning in Mexico City and later expanding to other regions such as Baja California, in Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Veracruz.

Liberalism was a political trend that developed and spread in Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries. In this period, the creation of a secular state (separate from the Roman Catholic Church) was advocated, for the abolition of the corporate privileges of the Church, the military and indigenous communities, and for the establishment of an educational system that was not under the dominion of the Catholic Church.

In this sense, the liberalism of the 19th century considered that the fact that certain groups were privileged represented an obstacle to the progress and the 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 aimed to ensure that members of the indigenous population of Mexico were considered citizens.

At the beginning of the 20th 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 Díaz, president of Mexico at the time.

Areas under the influence of liberalism

Mexico City

During the nineteenth century

Mexican liberalism was highly influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment proposed by Montesquieu, Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Alejandro 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, today Mexico City.

During the 20th century

At the end of the 19th century, Porfirio Díaz came to the government, claiming to be liberal, but continuing the practices of the conservatives.

When the Díaz government was transformed into a dictatorial regime, a group of citizens who opposed him formed the Mexican Liberal Party (August 1900), which aimed to overthrow Porfirio Díaz and return to Mexicans the rights that had been taken away during the Porfiriato.

The aim was to establish at once an economic system that would put Mexico at the head of 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 newspaper Regeneración, which allowed the ideas of this party to be spread in the capital city.

Additionally, the organizing board 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 "Land and Freedom."

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

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