Insurgent Mexico

Written by John Reed

Narrated by Frank Muller

In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 27, 2008
• ISBN: 9781440798924

John Reed

John Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during World War I, and later became known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.

Reviews for Insurgent Mexico

[Hannaly Higuera · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

"Can't you understand it?" Fred exclaimed. "Your father sought freedom for men, but not for women... women must wait for another generation."

This text has greatly impressed me because it took at least four or five generations for women to be able to speak for our freedom. There are still more barriers to break, such as being free from the Western beauty standards, liberating ourselves from surgeries and aesthetic complexes, as well as from sexism, but we're getting there.
John Reed was a war correspondent who questioned the world. One of his questions was: Do you really feel happy in this world as it is?
It is essential to ask ourselves this question because we can choose to make a difference by being one of the people who make this world better. I always tell my students to create that balance with our small actions, from recycling to being responsible for our actions, not judging people, being empathetic, etc.
In the book, after the first question to Marcela, he added the following question:
"What does it do for you, aside from pushing you out into the street, to put yourself up for sale?"
This question really hits me because how many girls today are with a sugar daddy trying to get ahead. Or if we transform the question, how many child hitmen are on the streets. In any case, I recommend reading this author. I learned of his existence through the movie "Red Bells," a co-production between the USSR-Mexico and Italy directed by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk. (Translated from Spanish)