Dia de la Constitucion, Mexico
February 5, 2013 by staff
Dia de la Constitucion, Mexico, Dia de la Constituci?n, or Mexican Constitution Day, is celebrated on February 5th. The Mexican Constitution was drafted in Santiago de Querétaro by a Constitutional Convention during the Mexican Revolution. It was approved by the Mexican Constitutional Congress on February 5, 1917, with Venustiano Carranza serving as the first president under its terms. It is usually recognized with the festivals and street celebrations.
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a social and cultural movement which brought the beginning of changes in Mexico. The revolution started as a rebellion against President Porfirio Diaz. As the rift between the poor and rich grew under the leadership of General Diaz, the political voice of the lower classes was also declining. Diaz was once quoted as saying of his own people, “The Mexican people would ammount to nothing without being driven by the whip.” The opposition of Diaz surfaced when Francisco I. Madero, who was educated in Europe and at the University of California, began to gain recognition and political power.
Diaz had Madero imprisoned, feeling that the people of Mexico just weren’t ready for democracy. During this time, several other Mexican folk heros began to emerge, including the well known Pancho Villa in the north, and the peasant Emiliano Zapata in the south.
Diaz was still unable to control the spread of the growing insurgence and resigned in May, 1911, with the signing of the Treaty of Ciudad Ju?rez, after which he fled to France. Madero was then elected president, but received opposition from Emiliano Zapata who didn’t wish to wait for the orderly implementation of Madero’s desired land reforms. In November of the same year Zapata denounced Madero as president and took the position for himself. Zapata controlled the state of Morelos, where he chased out the estate owners and divided their lands to the peasants. Later, in 1919, Zapata was assassinated by Jesus Guajardo acting under orders from General Pablo Gonzalez.
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