Word: jalisco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that Foreign Secretary Hay meant business, the Mexican Official Gazette announced on the day the note was delivered that 1,800 acres of pasture land in the State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives...
...They always have a base village where they are beloved. They 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...
...standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco were killed by raiders...
...left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None of this solved the bus massacre in Jalisco where Bandit Lauro Rocha is too potent to be seriously bothered...
...from the galleries gunmen previously stationed there ripped out revolvers, sent a fusillade of shots zinging through the air. Most of the windows were blown out. Seventeen bullets crashed through the press box from which reporters tumbled to safety. When the smoke cleared away Deputy Manuel Martinez Valadez of Jalisco lay dead on the floor. Deputy Luis Mendez, who died next day, and two other deputies were wounded. Fifty shots were fired. It was the third fatal battle in Mexico's Congress since 1924. Deplored Speaker Luis Tavor...