Word: cristero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never a strategist, Avila Camacho won battle after battle with his tongue. In the Cristero rebellion of 1927, he walked unarmed into a saloon near Los Altos to meet the enemy chieftain. One hour later the pair walked out rubbing shoulders, the rebel cheerfully agreeing to lay down his arms. In Michoacan in 1929, he talked no less than twelve enemy generals into surrender...
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