Porfirio Diaz: “Effective Suffrage,

no re-election!” ruled Mexico

1876-1911

MEXICO

Francisco Madero: Coahuila

Intellectual turned Revolutionary

Pres. William Howard Taft, a

Progressive Republican,

threw US support to Madero

MEXICO

Pancho Villa: Populist

Gaucho Rebel from

Chihuahua

MEXICO

Emiliano Zapata: Populist Rebel

from the South (Morelos)

MEXICO

Victoriano Huerta: Former Diaz

Military Leader turned Madero

strongman

MEXICO

Venustiano Carranza: Norteno

Revolutionary from Coahuila

Pres. Woodrow Wilson, a

Progressive Democrat, threw

US support to Carranza

Alvaro Obregon: Former Carranza

General turned Presidente in

1920--brought peace to Mexico

Jose Vasconcelos: Mexico’s First

Minister of Public Education

Plutarco Elias Calles:

Mexico’s President in 1924

Cristero Rebels attending a

Field Mass

Lazaro Cardenas: President

and Founder of the PRN

(President 1934-1940)

Manuel Avila Camacho

(President, 1940-1946)

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

(President, 1964-1970)

Protesters in Mexico City,

September 1968

(Magnum)

A Tank stands guard after the

Massacre in the Plaza of

Three Cultures in Mexico

City

Jose Lopez Portillo

(President 1976-1982)

Miguel de la Madrid

(President, 1982-1988)

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

(President, 1988-1994)

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de

Leon: President of Mexico

(1994-2000)

EZLN views of Zedillo

Vicente Fox: President

of Mexico, 2000-2006