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Revolutionary journalist attacks Mexico from Texas
On this day in 1891, Catarino Erasmo Garza led a group of twenty-six
armed men across the Rio Grande at Mier, Tamaulipas, and proclaimed the
"Plan Revolucionario." This beginning episode in the so-called Garza War
adumbrated the impending Mexican Revolution. Garza, a sewing-machine
salesman and newspaper publisher, had spent years in the United States,
where he and his comrades started numerous Spanish-language newspapers
that advocated the overthrow of the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. When
Garza attacked Mexico in 1891, the Díaz regime so harshly suppressed the
Garcistas in northern Mexico that a pro-Garza reaction occurred in
Texas. Fearing war, however, the U.S. government and Texas authorities
drove Garza from the state in 1892. He wandered from revolution to
revolution in the Caribbean and South America and was reported killed in
Colombia in 1895. Like many dead folk heroes, he continued to be sighted
for some time.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- GARZA WAR
- GARZA, CATARINO ERASMO
- MEXICAN REVOLUTION
- SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Promotional stunt in non-existent town kills three people (1896)
- Mexico frees slaves (1829)
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