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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...
...months, radicals led by sour-faced General Francisco Mujica, Minister of Communications & Public Works, and Toledano have been hurling charges of "Fascist" against 240-lb. Cedillo. Backed in his home state of San Luis Potosi by 7,000 men, the last private army in Mexico and apparently in high favor with President Cárdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused...
...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...