Editing Revolution Day (Mexico)

==History==

[[File:Francisco_I_Madero-retouched.jpg|thumb|left|[[Francisco I. Madero]], who called on Mexicans to rise up on November 20, 1910]]

The Mexican Revolution brought the overthrow of liberal Army general [[Porfirio Díaz]] after 35 years as president of Mexico (1876-1911). In the 1910 presidential election, wealthy landowner [[Francisco I. Madero]] opposed Díaz. Díaz jailed Madero, who then escaped, issuing the [[Plan of San Luis Potosí]] on October 6, 1910. In that plan, Madero declared the results of the 1910 election fraudulent, nullified them, asserted that he was provisional president, and called for Mexicans to rise up against Díaz on November 20, 1910.<ref>Stuart F. Voss, "Plan of San Luis Potosí". ''Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture'' vol. 4, p. 421. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996.</ref> He wrote "Throw the usurpers from power, recover your rights as free men, and remember that our ancestors left us a heritage of glory which we are not able to stain. Be as they were: invincible in war, magnanimous in victory."

The commemoration is celebrated in Mexico as an official holiday.<ref name="about">{{Cite web|url=http://gomexico.about.com/od/festivalsholidays/p/dia_revolucion.htm|title=Revolution Day - 20 de Noviembre - Día de la Revolución|access-date=30 June 2011|archive-date=19 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119003408/http://gomexico.about.com/od/festivalsholidays/p/dia_revolucion.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="bajainsider">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-life/holidays/revolutiondaymexico.htm|title=November 20 Mexico Revolution Day Dia de la Revolución|access-date=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906040148/http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-life/holidays/revolutiondaymexico.htm|archive-date=6 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="sanmiguelguide">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanmiguelguide.com/revolucion-mexicana.htm|title=Revolución Mexicana - Días festivos y celebraciones en México|language=Spanish|access-date=30 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="talavera">{{Cite web|last=Talavera Franco|first=Ramón|url=http://www.culturafronteriza.com/revolucion%20mexicana.htm|title=LA REVOLUCION MEXICANA|language=Spanish|access-date=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704152750/http://www.culturafronteriza.com/revolucion%20mexicana.htm|archive-date=4 July 2011}}</ref> Until 2006 and again from 2009 to 2013 the national celebrations were located at the [[Zocalo]] in Mexico City. Given the recent political and national tragedies that happened in 2014 the parades were called off at the aftermath of the [[2014 Iguala mass kidnapping]], (this was the case also in 2015), and the celebrations happened in the Campo Marte in the capital, thus pushing the national parade up to November 23, Navy Day, with only Mexican Navy personnel in attendance. Thus the national November 20 parades, during the remaining years of the [[Enrique Peña Nieto]] presidency, had now been replaced by state level ones, which have been held in major cities all over the nation as per tradition, but in a reduced basis, given recent cancellations due to protest actions on the said date in several state capitals. During the presidency of [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]], the traditional civil-military-athletic parade was finally reinstated in 2019.