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The Garza War in South Texas Reeta Wolfsohn and the social forces thatSouth Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president Porfirio DIaz faced a cross border insurgency intent on toppling his government. The Garza War, so named for the revolutionary firebrand and editor Catarino Erasmo Garza, actually comprised three concerted Texas based attempts to overthrow DIaz: a