Camilo Arriaga

Camilo Arriaga was a key figure in the early stages of the Mexican Revolution, though not a revolutionary leader himself. An engineer from San Luis Potosí, Arriaga organized liberal clubs and a political party in 1900 with the goal of restoring the liberalism of Benito Juárez. He convened a national meeting of liberal clubs in 1901, advocating for reforms that would later be incorporated into the Mexican constitution of 1917. Arriaga's group, known as Regeneration, was anarchist in orientation and influenced by thinkers like Mikhail Bakunin. Despite facing suppression and imprisonment, their ideas contributed to the growing dissent against the long-standing dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.12