Its main character, a bumbling and backwards cleric often depicted in compromising scenarios, resonated with countries grappling with the thorny issue of modernization -- particularly Iran, where Molla Nasreddin's first year of publication coincided with the Constitutional Revolution, an attempt to reform Iran's monarchy.

CNN: Iran's cartoonists find new lines of expression

In 1933 the new Iranian king, Reza Shah (a populist constitutional revolution soldier who challenged the authority of the Mullahs), challenged the British method of Iranian oil misappropriation: he declared that the British could no longer get away with taking Iranian oil without paying Iran its fair share.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Exonerating the Iranian people

Chavez called Baduel a traitor while Hanz Dietrich, the master intellectual of the Chavez socialist revolution, recommended that Chavez withdraw the proposed constitutional reform and try to co-opt Baduel to avoid further deterioration of the regime.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Civil disobedience, Chavez, and democracy

One month after the revolution, we had a referendum on the constitutional amendments.

CNN: Egypt's Islamists: Much to prove on women's rights

Morsi's historic swearing-in took place amid tight security before the Supreme Constitutional Court and was overseen by the military rulers who have been in control of the country since a popular revolution ousted President Hosni Mubarak last year.

CNN: New Egypt president takes on military over parliament

Cardinal Sin and Corazon Aquino, Mr Ramos's predecessor and another leader of the 1986 revolution, are planning to take part in a mass rally against constitutional change planned for September 21st.

ECONOMIST: Strictly ballroom

The needed constitutional changes will require a two-thirds majority in Congress, and the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution whose leading light is Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, mayor of the capital and son of the former president dislikes the whole idea.

ECONOMIST: Mexico