Word: carranza
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Emilio Gandarillas, leader of the Partido Co-operatista Nacional, says the election will be bloodless. Referring to the Carranza execution, he says: "Mexico has learned her lesson...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...
...promised the protection of American interests in Mexico. It has done so, however, in a desperate effort to obtain the support of the United States, without which no government can last in Mexico, and not because it considered itself responsible enough to give any guarantee. Furthermore, the late President Carranza, who was better qualified to make such a promise, made similar assurances in 1914, but failed utterly to live up to them...
General Obregon, the so-called President-elect of Mexico, a soldier by profession, was Mr. Carranza's right-hand man and most trusted adviser, until he chose to revolt against his chief, drive him from power and bring about his death. This fact is not very strange when we view it as a recurrence of General Huerta's famous coup d etat in 1913, when he overthrew the government of Madero and caused that President's subsequent overthrow...
...condition to cause considerable trouble when he considers it convenient to do so. Finally, General Salvador Alvarado, a self-avowed aspirant to the office of the Chief Executive and a notorious militarist, may yet prove a formidable opponent to General Obregon, his old rival under the late President Carranza. JAVIER'E. MOLINA...