THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION OF 1910

Because of its profound impact on the social, economic, and political fabric of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, over 100 interviews offer personal testimony of this turbulent era of borderlands history. Many of these eyewitness accounts are in Spanish and frequently mention political figures such as Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa, and Pascual Orozco.

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Pancho Villa and friends at El Paso's Elite Confectionery

Refugees from Mexico crossing the Rio Grande during the Mexican Revolution, 1917

Durante la revolución

Revolutionary soldier

Una soldadera de la revolución

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