The Pen That Set Mexico on Fire

Ricardo Flores Mag n, a journalist, published the most prominent resistance newspaper, Regeneraci n, in pre-revolutionary Mexico. From the United States, via railroads, Mag n's ideas and publication reached every village, and every community. All the future leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) read Regeneraci n and incorporated indigenous rights, land reform, worker rights, and many more revolutionary principles into their movements. True to his calling, hunted both in Mexico and the United States, Mag n died in a US prison, shunted as an anarchist. The author, an accomplished journalist, reexamines Mag n's role as one of the most influential thinkers of the Mexican Revolution.