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"sufragio efectivo, no reelección"

effective suffrage, no re-election

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The 20th of November is the date on which Mexico celebrates the Revolution of 1910, the beginning of the armed struggle which went on for many years and gave birth to modern Mexico.

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Díaz granted him an interview in 1910, but, when Madero told him of his ambition to be Vice President, Díaz praised his civic spirit and flatly refused him as running mate. Madero was horrified at how aged and distant from the nation's problems he found the dictator. After discussing the situation, the Anti-Reelectionist party decided to make him their candidate for President.

On June 14, Díaz had Madero jailed so that he could carry out his electoral fraud. Madero was released on bail shortly after the election results were ratified by Congress. He fled to San Antonio, Texas, where he immediately published his San Luis Potosí Plan, proclaiming the principles of "effective suffrage, no reelection", and declaring Díaz' presidency illegal. Madero called upon the citizens to rise up against the government on November 20th, 1910, at six o'clock in the afternoon. This is probably the only revolution in history that had such a specific start.

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But during that time, Mexico discovered many of the elements of its own identity. The many plans published during the period to define what each one believed and was fighting for, set the tone of political discourse in Mexico. Madero's slogan of "effective suffrage, no reelection" still graces the bottom of government documents, lest the lesson be forgotten. And the resulting Constitution of 1917 is one of the most progressive of its time and well beyond.

Read more in http://zedilloworld.presidencia.gob.mx/PAGES/culture/note_20nov.html

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