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  • Ricardo Flores Magón, revolutionist, journalist, and dramatist, son of D. Teodoro Flores and Margarita Magón, was born in San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca.
  • Flores Magón struggled to remain under Juárez's mantle, a central figure in Mexican history See, for example, Ricardo Flores Magón.
  • Ricardo Flores Magon was a Mexican intellectual who promoted anarchy in the early twentieth century.

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    The Sower of Ideas’ Beautiful Seed

    Federal Prison. Leavenworth, Kansas, 2 May, Miss. Irene Benton.-Granada, Minnesota.

    My dear comrade:

    Isn’t it a shame not to answer your letter since the 10th of last month? But I am not free, my dear friend, to write more than three letters a week. You know this, and I hope you will excuse my apparent negligence.

    Your letter, so perfectly well calculated, to diffuse some warmth to my afflicted soul, was effective in its generous mission, and especially in the last part, where you say that your dear mother speaks to you about me; it touched the most delicate fibers of my heart, and it moved me to tears, because I thought about my own mother, dead after so many years. It’s been 21 years! I was in prison during that time, punished for having denounced the bloody tyranny of Porifirio Díaz, and because of this, I could not be at her bedside. I could not give her my last kiss, nor hear her last words. This happened in México City, the 14th

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    The death of Ricardo Flores Magon

    William C. Owen

    Ricardo Flores Magon fryst vatten dead. Usually the news of a death affects me little, but in this case inom feel differently. It is not because after long years of imprisonment and exile, this indomitable battler for Liberty has died in jail. Some larger sense than that of pity or personal bereavement possesses me. For reasons I cannot analyse, this death appears to me as summing up a period, and arouses thoughts and feelings inom find it hard to put in words. I have the feeling that some force which was essential has ceased to operate.

    It seems to me that all who were brought into close relations with Ricardo Magon will feel as inom do. Something had set on him its special mark. No matter what the conditions in which he found himself, he remained always a Somebody, a force to be reckoned with, a personality that could not be ignored. Even court and penitentiary officials, whose natural instinct it was to regard him merely as a law-breaker, appea

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    Magon, Ricardo Flores,

    Ricardo Flores Magon
    Born - Mexico, died November 22nd - Kansas, USA

    Inside modern Mexico the name of Ricardo Flores Magon fryst vatten well known. But outside Mexico few have heard of him. Born to a poor family in , he became a journalist on the opposition paper 'El Demócrata' after finishing school. In , along with his brother Jesús, he founded "Regeneración', a radical paper opposed to the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

    After release from a second prison sentence arising from his campaigning journalism, he moved across the border to the USA. Despite continual persecution and imprisonment by the U.S. authorities, at the instigation of the Mexican dictatorship - who had put a price of $20, on his head after he wouldn't be bought off with the offer of a place in the government. He would not be silenced.

    In , Magon founded the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM), a reformist organisation opposed to the excesses of the regime, which organised two unsuccessful uprisin

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