International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama was a journalist, politician, and agrarian leader. He was an active member of the radical opposition to the government of General Porfirio Díaz during the Mexican Revolution . After the civil war he followed the trajectory of the ruling classes from populism to more conservative and anti-communist positions. He was born January 23, 1880, in San Luis Potosí into an educated middle-class family. When he was 19 he was a member of the anticlerical Jacobin Club Liberal Ponciano Arriaga, along with brothers Ricardo and Julio Flores Magón, Juan Sarabia, and Camilo Arriaga. The militant attitude of this club generated many more clubs in various states of Mexico. Club Liberal Ponciano Arriaga participated in the founding congress of the Liberal Mexican Party (PLM), which can be considered as the starting point of an organized political opposition to the government of Porfirio Díaz. In 1903 Díaz Soto y Gama fled Mexico to avoid arrest and settled in Texas. After coming to an agreement with Díaz not to criticize the government in public, he returned in the spring of 1904 to help his financially struggling father. When Díaz died, Díaz Soto y Gama returned to political life in opposition to Francisco Madero . In 1912, influenced by the Catalan anarchist Francisco Moncaleano, he became one of the founders of the radical labor organization Casa del Obrero Mundial in ... log in or subscribe to read full text