Word: cedillo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the Mayor of Valles, State of San Luis Potosi, was murdered. General Saturnine Cedillo, boss of San Luis Potosi, appointed another Mayor, but the townspeople resented the dictation, called for a regular election. Fortnight ago, they arranged a meeting to agitate for their rights, invited several hundred Labor sympathizers from Mexico City to attend. Boss Cedillo's men opened fire on the gathering from hotel windows, cafe doors. Throwing up street barricades, the two groups potshot at each other for eight hours, were stopped by the arrival of Federal troops. Four lay dead, several wounded...
This first sharp clash between Cedillo, former Minister of Agriculture who split with pudgy-cheeked President Lazaro Cardenas over the Government agrarian policy (TIME, Aug. 30), and Leftist Laborites, Mexican observers last week interpreted as the opening volley of a Mexican Right v. Left struggle. Unorganized, Mexican Rightists have been unable to present any formidable opposition to the 42-year-old "social revolution" of President Lazaro Cardenas. But last week, news-wise correspondents saw the Rightists rallying around swarthy-skinned General Cedillo, predicted that Mexico contained the makings of a little Spanish civil...
...know, Mr. President, that there are some members of your Cabinet who do not frankly cooperate with you. I am one of them," said the blunt Indian-blooded General. Fork poised in the air, Cárdenas replied: "I appreciate your frankness, General Cedillo, and in spite of our differences, I continue to count on your help...
...rift widened, Cedillo, who had risen from a bandit leader in the days of Pancho Villa to absolute boss of San Luis Potosi State, owner of a huge estate and palatial Las Palomas, stubbornly opposed the agrarian socialism of Cardenas. Landowner Cedillo favored small, privately-owned individual farms, objected to the communal ejidos set up by Cardenas...
Radicals seized upon these differences, encouraged uprisings at Chapingo Agricultural School. Fortnight ago, students demonstrated against "Fascist" Cedillo. The Minister of Agriculture peevishly complained that the undergraduates, many of them students he had appointed, should remain loyal. He wired Cárdenas at Yucatan: "Order War Department to present for my disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...