ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the controversies aroused by the Great War in Mexico, based on the local newspapers published in Guadalajara, the second-largest city of the country. While the impact of World War One on revolutionary Mexico and the intellectual circles of Mexico City have been the subject of significant studies over the past years, the many regions that form this vast country seem to remain on the sidelines of these historiographical discussions about how the Great War shaped the national debates during the Mexican Revolution. This paper proposes to explore the discussions held around the Great War in Guadalajara, based on a close review of the local newspaper El Informador, founded in 1917 to support the Allied cause. This revision invites us to question the role of local press as a mediator between what was happening in Europe and populations living far from the conflict but interested in its issues. El Informador also offers an interesting insight into women’s participation in the local debates during the Great War and how they managed to create their own space in a male-dominated field.
