Many great Mexicans have lived in El Paso attracted by the warm
hospitality of the border community. This is the case of Ricardo
Flores Magón, who lived for several months in 1906 in a small
apartment in the heart of El Segundo Barrio. This place was
located a few blocks from where the Centro de los Trabajadores
Agrícolas Fronterizos is now located. His brief stay in El Paso
was enough to leave us his revolutionary example and his vision
of a system free of oppression end exploitation. Ricardo and
Enrique Flores Magón, founders of the Mexican Liberal Party.
Ricardo Flores Magón was born in San Antonio Eloxochitlán,
Oaxaca, in 1873, to a poor family. His parents were Teodoro
Flores and Margarita Magón. He attended elementary and high
school then went on to Law School in 1893. But he did not become
an attorney, instead he became a journalist with "El Demócrata",
an opposition newspaper. In 1900, along with his brother Jesús,
he founded "Regeneración", a very radical and antigovernment
paper that ended him in ja