there is a tsunami coming and it's going to crash on the repukes shores...

[róisín_dubh]

61. Mexico's Revolution...

began with a whimper- a call to arms on 20th November 1910. And fuck all happened for the most part. But little by little from that day, different leaders in various parts of the country took issue with the myriad problems Mexico faced at the time (collapsed economy, racist old fucker dictator at the helm of a part of equally racist "yes" men, social ills, labor problems, etc) and knitted together a successful revolution that brought about the most radical constitution that the world had seen up to that point.

I mean, hundreds of thousands died in the ensuing years- so maybe we can skip that part. But in many ways, Mexico's issues then mirrored our own: a vast country with a bunch of different and serious issues; regional variations and rivalries; loads of foreign interference (thanks US, Germany, Britain and France). They needed not one leader, but many and that's what made them successful (though in the end was the undoing of all of the leaders- the bravado and different motivations, but I digress).