He published Spanish language newspapers in the United States, founded mutual aid societies, and is perhaps best known for the unsuccessful Garza Revolution near the Texas Mexican border.

[3] He attended Colegio San Juan de los Esteros in Matamoros and served in the National Guard.

The paper was meant to raise awareness to the increasing brutality of the Porfiriato dictatorship and its extension in Coahuila through the governor José María Garza Galán.

The Harrison Administration's military response to the Garza Revolution was extremely bloody, and set precedent for U.S. domestic warfare.

[4] Leading the suppression was U.S. Army captain John Gregory Bourke, who said, “The cheapest thing to do is to shoot them down wherever [they are] found skulking about with arms in their hands, and to burn down some of the ranchos which gave them shelter.”[9] Bourke, who had fifteen years experience in Arizona during the Apache Wars, led his armies to destroy all Tejano communities believed to support Garza.

[9] After Garza's exile from Texas, he traveled throughout the Western Hemisphere, including New Orleans, Key West, Florida, Nassau, Jamaica, and Havana, Cuba.

Official sources describe Garza's death; he was killed while attempting to free prisoners in Bocas Town on March 8, 1895.

[13] The mission was criticized in Mexico for spending too many resources to recover one nineteenth-century person when more than 100,000 Mexican people were reported disappeared as of 2024.