Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the rugged Huasteca hills of the central Mexican State of San Luis Potosí one day last week thundered Federal cavalry forces of President Lázaro Cárdenas. At the town of Rio Verde they found belligerent bands of agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast...
...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...
Proudest achievement of the socialist-minded Mexican Government is its school system. In 1910 Mexico had only 600 State-supported schools and 70% of its citizens were illiterate. But the post-revolution constitution of 1917 decreed free, secular education for all. By 1921 President Obregón began to send missionaries into the rural districts to establish secular schools. A constitutional amendment in 1934 gave the Government control of all primary and secondary education, directed that it should be socialistic. Today, despite the bitter opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to the new educational plan, Mexico has some...
LAREDO, Tex., Friday--The legislature of the State of San Luis Potosi, by a manifesto written in the manner of articles of confederation, seceded from the central government of Mexico on May 15, according to information reaching this Mexican border city today, called an extraordinary session after President Lazaro Cardenas sent government troops into the state to disarm agrarian followers of General Saturnino Cedillo. The legislature reported Cedillo commander-in-chief of the army and exhorted other states to join it in forming a provisional government for Mexico...
...properties in Mexico have suffered in the opinion of His Majesty's Government. Meanwhile, British Ambassador to Mexico Owen St. Clair O'Malley was sent packing with two calculated slaps-in-the-face from the Government of President Cárdenas: 1) He was reminded by the Mexican Foreign Office that the United Kingdom has welshed on her War Debt. Wrote Foreign Minister General Eduardo Hay: "The government of Your Excellency lacks all right to analyze the domestic situation of Mexico. . . . Even powerful states having at their command abundant resources cannot pride themselves on being up to date...