Word: insurrecto
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...months ago the insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains...
...situation was that the Federalistas in Juarez were waging a hopeless battle against Insurrectos under General Miguel Valles. A stray bullet fired by an Insurrecto traversed the Rio Grande and broke a window pane on the 13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George...
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