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...town of Rio Verde they found belligerent bands of agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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