THE MEXICAN (PT I) by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, This tense Jack London story titled The Mexican was written during the Mexican Revolution while Jack London was in El Paso, Texas. |
| 0:39.0 | It was first published in the Saturday evening post, then republished by Grosit and Dumup |
| 0:45.2 | in the collection of short stories, The Night Born. |
| 0:49.1 | The protagonist is based on the real life Joe Rivers, the pseudonym of a Mexican revolutionary whose boxing winnings |
| 0:56.7 | supported the junta revolutionaria mehicana, a group of revolution revolutionaries in exile. |
| 1:04.0 | Joe Rivers eventually retired from boxing and became an ice delivery person in El Paso. |
| 1:10.0 | One of these days we're going to do the story of the Mexican Revolution which took place between |
| 1:15.3 | 1910 and 1920, during which time the educated and forward-thinking people of Mexico, |
| 1:22.3 | shafing under a dictatorship pretending to be a republic, |
| 1:25.9 | initiated a bloody revolution |
| 1:28.0 | that eventually spilled over into the US, |
| 1:30.6 | drawing US military forces under the command of General John Black Jack Pershing to enter the |
| 1:36.5 | fray. |
| 1:38.6 | This two-part story centers around Felipe Rivera, the son of a Mexican printer, who had published articles |
| 1:44.6 | favorable to striking workers in the hydraulic power plants of Rio Blanco Veracruz. |
| 1:51.7 | The workers are locked out and the federal troops are sent against them. |
| 1:55.0 | Rivera escapes the massacre by climbing over the bodies of the deceased, including those of his mother and father. |
| 2:04.0 | He makes his way to El Paso, Texas where he comes into contact with the Hunta |
| 2:09.0 | Revolution Area Meekana. |
| 2:11.0 | He volunteers to serve the revolution at the office of the junta, who suspicious, put |
| 2:17.3 | him to work doing menial labor. Soon, however, he is dispatched to Baja California to reestablish connections between Los Angeles |
| 2:27.0 | Revolutionaries and the Peninsula. Exceeding these orders, he assassinates Federal General Juan Alvarado and returns to El Paso. |
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