https://medium.com/p/59505e15b051

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https://vimeo.com/1105358835?share=copy#t=0

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And it is with a capital 'R', that the Mexican people and scholars know, what Revolution is being mentioned.

Source: La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History by Thomas Benjamin

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Monterrey was grounds for the 'experiementaion of radio' and this was due largely to this area being militarized and discreet operations.

Source: Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 by Joseph Justin Castro.

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Castro says in chapter 3 that Carranza and radio operatives would be great intel with what information was gathered or interrupted services of the U.S. military. And this helped with foreign relations.

Source: Radio in Revolution
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 by Joseph Justin Castro.

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https://medium.com/la-revolucion-mexicana/the-closing-end-of-the-revolution-and-its-aftermath-fab94957743d

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Villa and his men attacked Columbus, NM and President Wilson sent the military led by General Pershing. Villa and his men knew the terrain and was able to evade capture.

Source: The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 by Michael J. Gonzales.

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Amateur radio broadcasters was pirate radio. Unlicensed and outlaws of the airways broadcasted historical events of the revolution, the Great War, and the world after. It was unfiltered and spoke whatever truth that had to be heard.

Source: Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 by Joseph Justin Castro.

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Even through Huerta, Obregon, and Carranza's times in office, radio was heavily regulated, censored, licensed, commercialized, and used for military, education such as hygiene and lectures, conferences, music, news, ads purposes.

Source: Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 by Joseph Justin Castro.

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The Diaz and Madero regimes both weaponized and propagandized the power and and reach of message of the radio.

Source: Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938 by Joseph Justin Castro.

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