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title: '"La Constitución ha muerto" protest at El Hijo del Ahuizote (1903)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hijo-del-ahuizote-constitucion-ha-muerto-1903/
description: 'Sepia photograph of a two-storey building front under a signboard reading ''El Hijo del Ahuizote'': a black-draped placard ''La Constitución ha muerto....''…'
section: Collection
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# "La Constitución ha muerto" protest at El Hijo del Ahuizote (1903)

Sepia photograph of a two-storey building front under a signboard reading 'El Hijo del Ahuizote': a black-draped placard 'La Constitución ha muerto....' hangs between the windows in a wreath, black bows and wreaths hang either side, tricolour bunting is draped over the balconies, and about a dozen men look out from the windows. The tell is the staged funeral: mourning insignia and the national colours are laid over the office front to declare the constitution dead.

- **Date:** 1903
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** El Hijo del Ahuizote (Mexico City opposition weekly)
- **Region:** [Latin America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=latin-america)
- **Country:** [Mexico](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=mexico)
- **Medium:** [Photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=photograph)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Diaz Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=diaz-government)
- **Leader:** [Porfirio Diaz](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=porfirio-diaz)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (credit: latinamericanstudies.org)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Constitucion_ha_muerto_1903.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (photograph of 1903, unknown author; Commons: PD-old, no restrictions flagged) Unknown photographer, protest at the offices of El Hijo del Ahuizote, Mexico City, 1903; via Wikimedia Commons (credit: latinamericanstudies.org).

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
EL HIJO DEL AHUIZOTE [signboard]
LA CONSTITUCION HA MUERTO.... [placard in the black-draped wreath]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE SON OF THE AHUIZOTE [signboard]
THE CONSTITUTION IS DEAD.... [placard in the black-draped wreath]
```

'Ahuizote' is a Nahuatl-derived word, the name of a legendary water creature that is also used in Mexican Spanish for a nuisance. The placard is small in the 960-pixel rendering but legible. Translation is by Claude and unverified by a fluent reader.

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