Word: cedillo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...
Died. General Saturnino Cedillo, 46, satrap of San Luis Potosí, who last year led an unsuccessful revolt against Mexico's Cárdenas Government ; in a fight with Mexican Government troops near Matehuala, San Luis Potos...
...President Cárdenas, these assurances brought happiness. To neutral foreigners, the wholesale pledge of loyalty from previously doubtful supporters meant simply that the ill-timed, provoked revolt of Boss Cedillo, until recently political boss of San Luis Potosí State, had little chance of success, was already crumbling...
While Cárdenas headquarters announced that the capture of Cedillo was a matter of only days, it was still evident that the Boss was capable of making plenty of trouble for the hard-pressed Government. The "Sunshine Special" train carrying tourists between Laredo, Texas and Mexico City was derailed by Cedillo's men, and tourist offices were forced to admit that the country was "disturbed." In once-prosperous San Luis Potosí State, business was at a standstill...
Meanwhile, the "Bull of San Luis Potosí" was still at large. Capture of Cedillistas was announced daily, but Federal airplanes and troops combed the rugged Huasteca hills in vain for the Chief himself. At week's end, Strongman Cedillo was so bold that by short-wave radio from his hideout he gave an interview to the U. S. He claimed his revolt was spreading...