In the early 20th century, Mexico was a playground for a dictator, foreign corporations and a tiny elite while millions of peasants lived in desperate poverty.

In this Putschcast episode, we ride into the chaos of the Mexican Revolution. Joining us is Dr Robert Weis, an expert on modern Mexico, who walks us through the long collapse of Porfirio Díaz's regime and the revolutionaries who tried to seize the future.

Díaz was no simple brute. He ruled through cooperation and selective repression, bringing stability and modernisation at a terrible cost. Land was stripped from Indigenous villages, foreign investors grew wealthy while most Mexicans stayed impoverished, and dissent was crushed by the Rurales. For more than 30 years he balanced order with exploitation.

From Pancho Villa's daring cavalry in the north to Emiliano Zapata's fiery land rebellion in the south, we track how peasants, workers and renegades turned a fight against a dictator into a brutal war for the soul of a nation. Was the revolution a betrayed dream, or did it reshape Mexico forever?

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