Every year on November 20 Mexico celebrates the anniversary of the day in 1910 when the movement to overthrow dictator Porfirio Diaz formally began.
But one of the sparks that helped ignite Mexico’s Revolution came two years earlier, when Diaz granted an interview to Canadian-American journalist James Creelman.
“I have no desire to continue in the Presidency. This nation is ready for her ultimate life of freedom,” Diaz famously remarked in the fateful interview for Pearson’s Magazine conducted at Chapultepec Castle, seemingly paving the way for a more democratic Mexico. “No matter what my friends and supporters say, I will retire when my present term of office ends, and I shall not serve again. I shall be 80 years old then.”
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