For other uses of this term, see Filomeno Mata (Veracruz). Filomeno Mata 1845-1911 (Museum of the Mexican Army and Air Force).
Filomeno Mata Rodríguez (San Luis Potosí, July 5, 1845-Veracruz, July 2, 1911). He was a Mexican journalist and professor, one of the most prominent during the Porfiriato.
Originally from the Hacienda de Carranco in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, he practiced journalism, as were The Republican Monitor and La Patria.
He also participated in El Ahuizote, a fierce weekly that appeared in 1874, whose content was opposed to the government of politician Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. Filomeno Mata was responsible for the correspondents.
Also, within his career as a journalist, he founded and directed several newspapers, some of them were: The Free Suffrage, The Rattlesnake, The Electrical Sheet and The Monitor Tuxtepecano, this last supporter of the government of General Porfirio Diaz. p>
Following his work as one of the most successful Mexican journalists of that time, he was appointed director of the Official Journal of the Federation and the government printing press.
In spite of previous publications in favor of the Diaz government, Filomeno Mata would have to be distinguished by the foundation of one of the most well-known newspapers of opposition to the Porfirian Diario del Hogar, which appeared on September 16, 1881, with the idea initial posting on it's cooking recipes. However, it turned into a combative journal in which Mata shaped virulent criticisms that meant the prison, where it went to stop several times.
He died in the city of Veracruz, dejected and ill, on July 2, 1911, after having supported the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero, at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Bibliography
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