Mexico is a beautiful country known for its amazing cuisine, gorgeous beaches, and ancient ruins. Looking at it, it is hard to imagine that this breathtaking land was once filled with war and cries of revolution. The Mexican revolution was a period of bloody struggle to end dictatorship. The five major revolutionary parties lead by Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Venustiano Carranza, Alvaro Obregon, and Pascual Orozco fought hard for their own ideas of revolution, together sometimes as allies, sometimes as enemies. Switching five presidents in just ten years, the conflict, violence, and betrayal took the lives of over two million people, including that of innocent civilians, before finally achieving the stability and peace we still see today.

In the video, we talk about the important events in the revolution and the cause and effect train of these events. We start from the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz in 1876 all the way to the successful rule of Alvaro Obregon in 1920, when the people finally freed their country as well as themselves from oppression.

What happened exactly? How did these events unfold? Watch “The Mexican Revolution in Plain English” to find out.

Made by Eileen Gao, Sophia Ding, and Alex Ma

Edited by Sophia Ding