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When someone visits the city of San Pedro de las Colonias
in one of the streets surrounding the Main Square
one finds a beautiful construction of rock-quarry
from the early 20th century.
And current home of the "Madero Museum".
The inside offers us a perspective
of the most important personalities and events
that highlighted the Revolutionary Era.
Ideal residence
for the man who was
the richest one of "La Laguna".
But that
would ignore
the personality
of Francisco Madero.
The true residence that lived in San Pedro the man
who ended 30 years of dictatorship
is a few meters
from the luxurious "Quarry House"
and, today,
is the City's House of Culture.
In this simple construction
Francisco spent his single and married life
with complete austerity.
This residence,
which was the ideological birthplace of the Revolutionary movement of 1910,
gave accommodation and food to strangers
and entire families without resources for long periods
and about 50 children daily received, here,
their food.
In 1896, it was common to see young Madero
prescribing homeopathic medications
learned from his father
and his uncle Catarino Benavides
to cure the illnesses of his workers
who lived in his properties under hygienic conditions
and good wages.
José de Jesús Campos Luján
a young guerrilla man from a wealthy family of "La Laguna"
who, in 1912, took up arms against Madero's presidency,
said:
"There is no best friend,
nor a better and virtuous man
as "Pancho" Madero
in the entire "La Laguna"
But how was Francisco I. Madero?
According to several of his contemporaries, Pancho
was tanned
and small in stature.
Wide forehead and brown hair
with a slight baldness.
Vivacious and expressive
big black eyes.
Thick mustache, and since his youth,
French-style beard, that is, "sharpened".
On his return from Europe,
Francisco stopped being a fragile-health boy.
He acquired a vigorous complexion and agility of movements.
As an excellent swimmer,
tireless rider and great walker, Madero
had an inexhaustible physical strength.
His gestures were typically northerners:
rough,
abrupts and arrogants.
His way of speaking was strong and clear
but his voice was not particularly thick:
" Soldiers of the Republic ! "
"I appeal to all those
(VOICE ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCISCO MADERO)
and those who took part in the Insurgent Army ..
.. the war is over."
"Every Mexican must celebrate
the beautiful victory has been obtained."
"That success has been achieved by the people
that was the only one who fought
against the only enemy that was the dictator."
His temper was nervous,
suffering from hypertension,
raised his left shoulder as a nervous "tick"
and suffered from migraines that recruited him
inside a dark room.
The personality of Francisco I. Madero
was of a generous and simple man.
That, according to his cousin, Adrián Aguirre Benavides
he expressed
by his way of looking and appearance.
Madero had good humor with everyone
especially the poor
with a permanent smile on his face.
That smile, according to Edith O'Shaughnessy,
wife of the "chargé d'affaires" of the U.S. Embassy,
she largely reminded.
Also journalist,
she wrote: "..Madero had something of youth,
hope,
and personal kindness."
In San Pedro de las Colonias he wore white suits
or pants with "camisoles".
He bathed twice daily in warm seasons
and wearing "sombreros"
or his favorite hat:
the "sarakof".
"Malaria, pneumonia,
enteritis...
...and not to mention venereal diseases."
"These poor people have it all, Gustavo."
"But you are not a doctor, Pancho."
"Neither they could pay for one."
"I help them with what I learned of homeopathy."
"I could write instructions and brochures on health care."
"But if you think about...
...four of five Mexicans are illiterate...
...you understand that would be useless. "
Francisco was vegetarian and frugal in eating.
He ate with his workers
to know their needs and miseries.
he always tried to remedy.
Francisco Madero
sought to ease the pain,
comfort the sorrows
and the shortage of resources that were suffering
the inhabitants of San Pedro de las Colonias
in the State of Coahuila.