The Oh, This tense Jack London story titled The Mexican was written during the Mexican Revolution while Jack London was in El Paso, Texas.

It was first published in the Saturday evening post, then republished by Grosit and Dumup

in the collection of short stories, The Night Born.

The protagonist is based on the real life Joe Rivers, the pseudonym of a Mexican revolutionary whose boxing winnings

supported the junta revolutionaria mehicana, a group of revolution revolutionaries in exile.

Joe Rivers eventually retired from boxing and became an ice delivery person in El Paso.

One of these days we're going to do the story of the Mexican Revolution which took place between

1910 and 1920, during which time the educated and forward-thinking people of Mexico,

shafing under a dictatorship pretending to be a republic,

initiated a bloody revolution

that eventually spilled over into the US,

drawing US military forces under the command of General John Black Jack Pershing to enter the

fray.

This two-part story centers around Felipe Rivera, the son of a Mexican printer, who had published articles

favorable to striking workers in the hydraulic power plants of Rio Blanco Veracruz.

The workers are locked out and the federal troops are sent against them.

Rivera escapes the massacre by climbing over the bodies of the deceased, including those of his mother and father.

He makes his way to El Paso, Texas where he comes into contact with the Hunta

Revolution Area Meekana.

He volunteers to serve the revolution at the office of the junta, who suspicious, put

him to work doing menial labor. Soon, however, he is dispatched to Baja California to reestablish connections between Los Angeles

Revolutionaries and the Peninsula. Exceeding these orders, he assassinates Federal General Juan Alvarado and returns to El Paso.

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