Word: cedillo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State of San Luis Potosí one day last week thundered Federal cavalry forces of President Lázaro Cárdenas. At the 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...
These detonations signaled the attempt last week by President Cardenas to put the final squeeze on his old friend, Saturnine Cedillo...
...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...
Rightists both in Mexico and the U. S. hailed General Cedillo's defiance as a potential threat to overthrow the Cárdenas regime. Mexico's troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired...
...week's end it was not known definitely whether or not he had taken to the hills with some of his followers. As Federal troops continued to mop up the scattered rebel bands and killed, according to a Defense Ministry announcement, the General's nephew Hipolito Cedillo and eleven more agrarians, observers agreed that Boss Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help him put over a national Rightist revolt. Late last week his wife...