![Textile workers in Río Blanco, Veracruz, stand united in defiance on January 7, 1907.](/content/images/size/w600/2024/01/Rio-Blanco-factory-circa-1907.jpg)
History
How the Rio Blanco Strike Ignited the Mexican Revolution
Mexico's booming 19th-century textile industry, built on foreign investments and brutal exploitation, ignited in 1907 with the Rio Blanco strike. Workers, yearning for justice and fair wages, faced Porfirio Díaz's regime head-on.