Librado Rivera

Librado Rivera (August 17, 1864 - March 1, 1932) was an anarchist during the Mexican Revolution. He co-published the anarchist newspaper Regeneración with Jesús Flores Magón and Ricardo Flores Magón.[1] He took over editorial duties for the anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Sagitario in 1924.[2]

Librado Rivera

Biography

Librado Rivera was born on August 17, 1864, in Mexico.

He was arrested and convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 in the United States, then sentenced to 15 years in prison. He served a total of 5 years at McNeil Island and Leavenworth Prison.[1]

He was deported from the United States to Mexico in 1923.[1]

He died in Mexico City on March 1, 1932 of tetanus following a car accident.

Footnotes
  1. Stephen Martin Kohn (1994). "Librado Rivera". American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  2. Cortés, Omar; López, Chantal. "Sagitario, el instrumento periodistico de la continuidad por Omar Cortes, para la Hemeroteca Virtual Antorcha". www.antorcha.net. Retrieved 2016-05-18.

Further reading
  • John W. Sherman, "Reolution on Trial: The 1909 Tombstone Proceedings Against Ricardo Flores Magón, Antonio Villarreal, and Librado Rivera," Journal of Arizona History vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 173-194. In JSTOR
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