Thursday, November 13, 2014

TOW (& Answer)...

The question was who is Ricardo Flores Magon?  To quote from my source Ricardo Flores Magon was 
“an intrepid and progressive essayist, speaker, organizer, politician and one of the intellectual pillars of the Mexican revolution of 1910.  Forced into exile in the United States for his opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, he began publishing a radical newspaper, Regeneracion, which by 1914 was headquartered in Los Angeles.  Convicted of U.S. neutrality law violations and imprisoned, Magon and his brother Enrique languished in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary where Ricardo died, perhaps by assassination, in 1922.”
The question (& answer) were taken from p. 94 of the Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles 1781-1985.  The book was written by Antonio Rios-Bustamante and Pedro Castillo and published by the University of California in 1986.