Petra, the famous locomotive from the Mexican Revolution

November 20

marked the 109 anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution . The government headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that there would be different activities, one of them the installation of the Petra locomotive , at Mexico City’s main square.

Petra, the famous locomotive named after a Mexican revolutionary woman

The locomotive is named after Petra Herrera , who was the leader of a women’s brigade during the Storming of Torreón . The name of the machine was chosen by the Presidential Commission for the Commemoration of Historical Facts, Processes, and Figures of Mexico , according to Felipe Ávila, director of the National Institute of Historical Studies of Mexico’s Revolution .

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