Monica Lozano doesn’t look like a revolutionary. She wears pinstripes, not camouflage. She holds a smartphone, not a shotgun. And she stands before a corporation, not an army.
Still, rebel blood courses through Lozano’s veins. Her grandfather, Ignacio Lozano Sr., was a Mexican journalist who immigrated to San Antonio in 1908—two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, which in 1910 commenced a decade-long migration of more than 890,000 people from Mexico to the United States. Like most of them, Ignacio wanted a better, safer life for his family. Because he planned to someday return home, however, he also sought a stronger, more prolific Mexico. So in 1913, he started La Prensa, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, to keep Mexican immigrants apprised of political events at home.
As more Mexicans headed north, so did the watchful eye of La Prensa, whose coverage expanded from current events in Mexico to those in the United States, where communities of Mexican inmigrantes were flush with discrimination and disparities.