Word: obregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ignacio de la Torre, whose family once owned much of the state of Morelos, is sometimes regarded by the oldtimers as false to his class. After flying for France in World War I, he came home, served as secretary to revolutionary President Alvaro Obregon, became one of Mexico's best engineers. Now he often gives parties on the family's half-ruined hacienda at Yautepec. and sometimes makes old family friends squirm by assuring them that Mexico's progress began when the great haciendas were destroyed...
After brief service in World War I, Gruening became publisher of New York City's Spanish language daily, La Prensa, developed a deep interest in Latin America. As managing editor of the liberal Nation, he clamored for recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon government, railed against dollar diplomacy, U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs, later wrote Mexico and Its Heritage...
Death of a General. Two years before that, Aléman had opened a scrubby little law office in Mexico City, and death had come to his father. The old General had broken with Strongman Obregon and turned guerrilla. For two years he held out in the jungle, until betrayed. Then, surrounded by government troops, he fought with his handful of men until ammunition ran out. With the last bullet he killed himself. In Mexico City. Miguel put his father's picture above his desk. It has been there ever since...
...little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes-he was the President's bootblack...
Thereafter life was like new. Every day Obregon told him a new joke. He took him along when they went to fight down revolutions, and Genaro thanked God he was so short when bullets flew through the presidential train. On his last day in office, Obregon discovered he had got all this service free-Genaro was not on the palace payroll. He flipped Genaro a gold coin, promised: "When I come back I'll see that you get a home of your own." But he never came back. On the eve of his return to office he was assassinated...