Keywords
propaganda
Mexican Revolution
Francisco Villa
war of factions
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Abstract
The image of Francisco Villa, one of the best-known Mexican revolutionaries in the world, has undergone several transformations over the decades. This is due to the great variety of versions that exist about his life, particularly around his outlaw past, which led to the emergence of various legends that Villa himself, on many occasions, celebrated and spread. The photographs, cinema, oral history, but specially the press, built Pancho Villa’s image. This article explains how and why the character of the general from Durango was constructed in the Carrancista press published in Mexico – opposed to its revolutionary project – during the war of factions, that is, since the end of 1914 to the middle of 1915; in other words, from the revolutionary rupture to the Carrancista triumph in the Bajío’s battles.
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