The Mexican press reported continuously on developments in Russia. Both Excelsior and El Universal were hostile to the Bolshevik revolutionaries, particularly because of the fear aroused by their political program, which was much more radical than the one practiced by Carrancism. The exception was Regeneration, newspaper of the Magonismo, that emphasized the paper of the Russian Revolution in the transformation of the contemporary world, notwithstanding the "authoritarian socialism" that, in his opinion, represented the Bolsheviks.