Hello and welcome to this day from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, February 1913, Mexico City is in the midst of what would come to be known as La Decena Trajica,

the 10 tragic days. The Mexican Revolution had been brewing in fits and starts for a few years at this point,

with a lot of fracturing and infighting throughout the country,

but this was the moment that it reached Mexico City,

began to touch the highest offices in government, and really pulled the U.S. in.

I got to say, we haven't touched on the Mexican Revolution that much on this show and the U.S. in. I got to say, we haven't touched on the Mexican Revolution

that much on this show and the U.S. role in it, in part because it is so fractured and complicated

and goes on for so long. But this is a fascinating moment because of the U.S. meddling. We have

Taft on his way out, Wilson on the way in. We have kind of a rogue U.S. ambassador trying to undermine

the Mexican president. And of course, like with much of Latin America and the United States

throughout the 20th century, we have business interests trying to pull some strings behind

the scenes. And it wasn't that subtle, actually. So here we are about 100 years or so later from this moment.

And look, we have another president talking about Mexico, throwing annexation ideas around.

So maybe it's worth revisiting, if only to remind us that, yeah, the U.S. has always been up in Mexico's business.

Here, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there.

Hello, Jody.

Hey there.

Remember a couple episodes ago where I proclaimed that I was going to kind of catch us up

on the state of the Vietnam War in like 90 seconds when we were talking about the USS Pueblo.

Mm-hmm.

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