Word: guanajuato
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...live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato just 45 years ago. At the age of eight, Diego Rivera attracted considerable attention by cutting out an army of 5,000 paper soldiers. Misinterpreting this, his parents sent him to a military academy. In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos...
Notable was the following declaration anent Mexico's Roman Catholics made last week by President Fortes Gil: "In the States of Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
...gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like...
...night for 120 hours last week Mexican Federal troops pursued rebellious General Rudolfo L. Gallegos (250 lb.), leader of an insurgent revolt in the state of Guanajuato, where he was onetime Military Commandant...