: THE MEXICAN (PT I) by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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"The Mexican" (Pt 1) by Jack London is the story of a young Mexican man who, after losing his parents in the struggle to overthrow a corrupt regime, turns to prizefighting to support the revolution, and sets up a winner take all fight with a known professional.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch, |
| 0:04.4 | you'd build a different kind of bank. |
| 0:06.5 | One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots, |
| 0:11.5 | doesn't invest in fossil fuels, charges no extra fees for spending abroad, |
| 0:16.1 | and definitely doesn't close before you finish work. |
| 0:18.6 | You'd build tools to help manage bills, teach kids good money habits, and give interest on personal and joint accounts. |
| 0:25.9 | So what would that look like? |
| 0:27.8 | Starling Bank, the Bank Built for You. you. The This tense Jack London story titled The Mexican was written during the Mexican Revolution |
| 1:07.0 | while Jack London was in El Paso, Texas. |
| 1:10.0 | It was first published in the Saturday evening Post, then republished by Grosit and Dumup in the collection of short stories, The Night Born. |
| 1:19.0 | The protagonist is based on the real life Joe Rivers, the pseudonym of a Mexican revolutionary whose |
| 1:25.9 | boxing winnings supported the junta revolutionaria mehicana, a group of |
| 1:31.7 | revolutionaries in exile. |
| 1:34.8 | Joe Rivers eventually retired from boxing and became an ice delivery person in El |
| 1:39.6 | Passo. |
| 1:41.6 | One of these days, we're going to do the story of the Mexican Revolution which took place between |
| 1:45.8 | 1910 and 1920, during which time the educated and forward-thinking people of Mexico, |
| 1:53.0 | chafing under a dictatorship pretending to be a republic, |
| 1:56.4 | initiated a bloody revolution that eventually spilled over into the US, |
| 2:01.1 | drawing US military forces under the command of General John Black Jack |
| 2:05.8 | Pershing to enter the fray. |
| 2:09.1 | This two-part story centers around Felipe Rivera, the son of a Mexican printer, who had published articles |
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