Abstract

MENDEZ LARA, Francisco Iván. The Centaur’s heralds. The Villista Press of Mexico City (1914-1915). Debates hist. [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.2, pp.183-217..  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 2594-2956.  https://doi.org/10.54167/debates-por-la-historia.v9i2.780.

Francisco Villa and villismo have been the subjects of innumerable books and specialized articles, however, the analysis of the newspapers that were created to support the caudillo and his revolutionary proposal is scarce. Historiography has paid particular attention to the development of the Carranza press from the publication of the Plan of Guadalupe to the triumph over the conventionist armies and the monopoly of information that Venustiano Carranza consolidated between 1916 and 1919. In parallel, there were different journalistic projects that emerged in the heat of factional struggle, among them that of the pro-villismo press in Mexico City from August 1914 to July 1915. This article analyzes, based on hemerographic sources, the appearance of a set of newspapers in favor of the Convention with opinions favorable to Villismo, as well as its gradual decomposition that ended with its total disappearance after the political and military defeats of Villismo.

Keywords : Mexican Revolution; Francisco Villa; newspapers; Faction Struggle; Revolutionary Convention.