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As it happens there was a temporary exhibit at the monument that was a bunch of great stuff on 18th and 19th century socialist and anarchist movements/literature, and the various ways both were brutally suppressed. Weird homestate connection to learn one of the newspaper dissidents Porfirio Dias tried to
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I’m insanely behind on this blog. At the time of writing, I have been in Sydney Australia for several days. So to skip to the end of the Mexican Revolution: 1. General Victoriano Huerta seized power and about everyone in the country turned against him. 2. Pancho Villa (escaping
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20 March, 2023 We were already intending on having this be a good “rest” or planning day, given most museums and similar attractions are closed, but the timing was even more fortuitous. At least, in a manner of speaking. My partner was feeling ill and this was the observed day
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You can just shut down a major road and let people bike down it. They do this every Sunday. The world doesn’t end.
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19 March, 2023 Whether you think of Leon Trotsky was cool and good or one of history’s greatest monsters (lol get out more), he was a guy of considerable impact. There’s a very strong argument to be made (1) the October Revolution and (2) the ultimate victory of
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18 March, 2023 Always on the lookout for “American” food or goods in foreign countries - either to get the funhouse mirror treatment or a devastating critique (or both)
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18 March, 2023 Big fat raindrops impact the windshield of the car with which we made our escape. But even the driver realized the futility of trying to get us all the way back to the hotel and let us out early. The plan was Centro, with its many museums
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March 17 2023 Besides the Monumento de Revolución, which I am not done writing about, we went to the Palacio de Bella Artes. This place is home to a couple of murals by Diego Rivera. They are brilliant and insanely complex - you could spend half a day just looking
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Previously: Overview The Porfiriato It’s 1910 and after flip-flopping on running for reelection basically everyone was tired of Profirio Dias’s shit. So when he arrested the plucky upstart Francisco Madero and ran a sham election, both the north and the cooler parts of the south rose up in
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March 17, 2023 Previously: Overview Okay so the museum can’t just jump right in to the old regime. Of course there is a bunch of prehistory, brutal colonization, and finally independence from the Spanish Empire. This is supposed to be microblogging, we’re gonna skip all that. The main
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March 17 2023 This was the Big Thing I really wanted to see in Mexico City. People who know me know that I, if prompted at all, will not shut the fuck up about history. Because of that, I’m going to try to do this in some phases that
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Hi I am Ben and I’ve been putting off taking a break and actually seeing some of the world for more than a decade. So now I am doing that. I took 4 months off work and I’m gonna look around. I had meant to produce a blog