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Enrique Flores Magón | |
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| Born | 13 April 1877 |
| Died | 28 October 1954(1954-10-28) (aged 77) |
Enrique Flores Magón (13 April 1877 – 28 October 1954) was a Mexican journalist and politician, associated with theMexican Liberal Party andanarchism. His name is most frequently linked with that of his elder brother,Ricardo Flores Magón, and the political philosophy they espoused,magonismo. Another brother wasJesús Flores Magón.
Magón was born inTeotitlán del Camino[1] (since renamed Teotitlán de Flores Magón) in the state ofOaxaca on 13 April 1877, to Margarita Magón and Teodoro Flores, aNahua who had fought inBenito Juárez's Liberal Army. At an early age the family relocated toMexico City. He was a student in the capital in 1884 when demonstrations broke out against the third re-election ofPresidentPorfirio Díaz. By 1902, he and his brother Ricardo, working on the anti-Díaz broadsheetEl Hijo del Ahuizote, were arrested and incarcerated in the military prison at Santiago Tlatelolco. While in prison the brothers explored the ideas of writers such asKropotkin,Faure,Errico Malatesta,Maxim Gorki, andProudhon and discussed the possibility of disseminatinganarchist ideas in Mexico.[citation needed]
Upon their release from prison in January 1903, the brothers returned to publishingEl Hijo del Ahuizote and, on 5 February of that year, Enrique Flores Magón drew a banner declaring "The Constitution is Dead", which they hung in front of its offices.[citation needed]
On 2 April 1903, they and other liberals stormed a pro-Díaz demonstration and succeeded in turning it into an anti-Díaz event, calling for the dictator's death. On 11 April, Magón was arrested again; he was later released, but subject to a ban on publishing any written materials. As a result, Enrique and Ricardo left Mexico for theUnited States, arriving inLaredo, Texas in late 1903.[citation needed]
Enrique lived in several cities around the U.S. and Canada, concealing his identity, constantly changing address, and frequently losing contact with Ricardo. InSt. Louis, he helped draft the platform of theMexican Liberal Party (PLM).[citation needed]
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He recommenced publication in the United States of the newspaperRegeneración, which the brothers had founded in 1900, and organized a clandestine network for its distribution in Mexico. He continued in these endeavors until 1917, when he left the Organizing Committee of the PLM and theRegeneración editorial team.[citation needed]
Following Ricardo's death in 1922, he returned to Mexico in 1923, where he had a series of disagreements with former Magonistas. In 1933, he helped leaders of the National Agrarian League found the Confederación Campesina Mexicana inSan Luis Potosí.[citation needed]
He died inMexico City on 28 October 1954, aged 77.[citation needed]
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