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...Fiesta" centers about the exciting revolution against Diaz in the latter part of the last century, and is colored with romance. Class rivalry between peons and old aristocrats and the three-cornered political antagonism among mestizos, creoles, and peninsulars, or half-breeds, native whites, and old Spaniards, furnish the historical background of a fast-moving plot...
...speech of President Plutarco Elias Calles was delivered before the Congress of Mexico, in the presence of 22 Divisional Generals, 16 Governors of Mexican States and the Diplomatic Corps. Not since the glamorous days of Dictator Porfirio Diaz has Mexico City been the scene of a spectacle so imposing and resplendent...
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...
...Rafaelo Diaz Lauritz Melchoir