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Insurgent Mexico

John Reed

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div class="line">God has pardoned him
And the Virgin of Guadelupe.
"Good-bye Beautiful Mexico
Where our leader died
Good-bye to the palace
Whence he issued a living corpse
"Señores, there is nothing eternal
Nor anything sincere in life
See what happened to Don Francisco I. Madero!'

By the time he was half-way through, the entire Tropa was humming the tune, and when he finished there was a moment of jingling silence.

"We are fighting," said Isidro Amayo, "for Libertad."

"What do you mean by Libertad?"

"Libertad is when I can do what I want!"

"But suppose it hurts somebody else?"

He shot back at me Benito Juarez' great sentence:

"Peace is the respect for the rights of others!"

I wasn't prepared for that. It startled me, this barefooted meztizo's conception of Liberty. I submit that it is the only correct definition of Liberty—to do what I want to! Americans quote it to me triumphantly as an instance of Mexican irresponsibility. But I think it i

R. 08/03/2021
Interesting series of accounts

This edition has a lot of typographical errors which can at times make reading difficult. Overall its an interesting read, its essentially a series of diary entries so its not very useful for plotting the military campaigns of the Revolution or the wider political conte
Michael 05/10/2020
If "Homage to Catalonia" left you hungry for another blend of adventure, true war reporting, headache-inducing factionalism, romanticized socialism, and oddly-rendered Spanish translations -- boy do I have a book for you!

John Reed is the kind of writer whose life eventually became a more intriguing
Googoogjoob 03/01/2019
Sort of an odd book. This is not really a history of the Mexican Revolution in any sense; rather it is a series of reports filed by John Reed in his capacity as a journalist attached to Pancho Villa's Division of the North in early 1914. Reading it, you will not get much of an understanding of the o
Juan 04/24/2013
This is a tough book to rate fairly on a five star scale, especially without resort to half-stars. Reed writes lyrical, detailed paeans to the land and people of northern mexico and paints vivid portraits of Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, and a multitude of other people he met during his infiltr
Kyra 05/25/2008
My great great grandfather wrote this book. He was a famous war journalist. This one is about time he spent in Mexico with Pancho Villa and his gang, during the revoultion in the early 1900s. The other well-known book of his is "Ten Days that Shook the World," --about the russian revolution.He was a

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