Word: huerta
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Faces for the Record. What Mathew Brady was to the U.S. Civil War, Agustín Casasola, his sons and his brother Miguel have been to the Mexican Revolution. They photographed the stormy leaders of the first upheaval-Madero, Villa, the peasant leader Zapata from Morelos, Huerta, Carranza and many another. Lugging their heavy, old-fashioned cameras, the Casasolas hustled into the field to record fighting between the opposing forces and to catch the faces of the women, soldaderas, who traveled with the armies and often fought beside their...
...reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again, he blew up his cell with smuggled dynamite, appropriated a horse and galloped north to the border...
Died. General Enrique Estrada, 53, revolutionist; in Mexico City. Minister of Agriculture under President de la Huerta in 1920, he fought the revolutionists, became a revolutionist himself under the Obregon regime, fled to the U.S. in 1924, two years later was convicted of plotting a revolution against President Calles, last year was made national railways chief by President Avila Camacho...
...platform strode President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who called for full collaboration with the United Nations. Standing beside him last week for Mexico and all the world to see were six living past Presidents: Adolfo de la Huerta (1920); General Plutarco Elías Calles (1924-28); Emilio Fortes Gil (1928-30); Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930-32); General Abelardo Rodriguez (1932-34); General Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40), who exiled Calles in 1936. Five of them posed for a historic picture (see cut). The crowd in the Plaza saw the neatest demonstration of unity in Mexico...
...April day in 1914, while Daniels was Secretary, the Navy shelled the Mexican port of Veracruz, ousting the revolutionary Government of General Victoriano Huerta. By 1916 the U.S. was at war with Mexico. Daniels later denied that he had ordered the attack. But Mexicans did not forget that he was technically in command of the Fleet...