Good morning fellow teachers, dear students, parents and the general public, who

join us today to commemorate another anniversary of the Mexican revolution.

To remember this HISTORICAL fact THAT HAS GIVEN A NATIONAL IDENTITY

TO OUR NATION; Let us pay with respect and deep love to our National Flag with
the corresponding honors...

Civic program!

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On this day, the “Margarita Maza de Juárez” ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has

prepared a civic and artistic program to keep in mind our Mexican revolution that
began on November 20 but in the year 1910, and today in 2012 we are celebrating
102 years of this important event that changed the course of our country.

Francis I. Madero, Francisco Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Álvaro Obregón, Venustiano

Carranza among others are characters in this great political and social event. To
open the artistic program, students from 1st A and 1st B parade representing some
characters from the Mexican Revolution.

Doroteo Arango, better known as Francisco Villa, was a Mexican revolutionary who
contributed to the triumph of the revolutionary movement by creating his own
army in the north of the country. To honor him comes the 2nd A group with the
poetry “Francisco Villa”.

The Mexican Revolution was an armed conflict led by Francisco I. Madero, which
resulted in the 1917 constitution that governs us today, immediately the 3rd A
group presents us with the acrostic “Mexican Revolution.

To give us a general overview of this movement, Professor Gerardo comes with a

short historical overview of the Revolution.

Next, the 5th “B” group presents us with the dance “El Syrup Tapatia”, let's receive
them with a loud applause.

During the revolt, the corridos and revolutionary dances became famous, which the
troops gathered at night were performed, perhaps to forget for a moment the
suffering of the armed struggle. Let's listen to the 3° B group with the “corrido del
norte”

The freedom that our heroes inherited from us symbolizes a strong nation, with
values and committed to its people, to make them loyal and helpful citizens who,
dedicated to their work and study, move forward this country that needs the
fortitude of its youth to achieve the expected political, economic and social
development.

WE THANK EVERYONE FOR YOUR KIND PRESENCE AT THIS EVENT AND

WE INVITE YOU TO ENJOY THE TRADITIONAL KERMESS...

THANK YOU.

Review of the Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was the first social revolution of the 20th century whose
armed stage or phase lasted from 1910 to 1920. The revolution began as a rebellion
against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, who had already been in power for more
than thirty years. The movement was led by the intellectual and political theorist
Francisco I. Madero, who with his motto "effective suffrage, no re-election"
crystallized the discontent around the country against the dictator Díaz. This phase
ended with Díaz's exile in Paris and Madero's victory in the democratic elections of
1911.

The second phase of the Revolution begins with the disagreement between the old
Porfirista bourgeois class and Madero. With the support of the United States and
its ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson, the elected president and vice
president José María Pino Suárez are assassinated in 1913, and the dictator
Victoriano Huerta is imposed as leader of the country. However, due to other
revolutionaries who fought against the established dictatorship, Huerta fled to the
United States in 1914.

After these two phases, the Revolution became a social revolution with Emiliano
Zapata (in the south) and Pancho Villa (in the north) fighting for social causes such
as agrarian reform, social justice, and education. However, both revolutionaries
had to make social commitments with liberal-constitutionalist revolutionaries such
as Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón.

The third phase is the culmination of the armed revolution with the Political
Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1917, recognized for having been a
social liberal constitution and the first of its kind in the world that still governs
Mexico today. The Constitution guaranteed liberal (civil and political) and social
reforms and rights (agrarian reform and progressive labor legislation).

The ideal of the revolution was to create a modern citizenry with rights and literacy.
The Constitution of 1917 was, perhaps, the highest achievement of the Revolution.