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...become definitely established ever since the war, is a movement of southern Negroes to Mexico. As yet the latter migration is insignificant. Fifteen families from Oklahoma crossed the border to take up homesteads. But the International Community Welfare League declares that a delegation of Negroes recently visited President Obregon and obtained rights to settle in Sonora and other Mexican states, with promises of freedom and equality. The League anticipates a large emigration...
Mexico: The political campaign to elect a successor to President Obregon will open in May. Six aspirants to Presidential office are announced by the newspaper El Universal...
...Adolfo de la Huerta, present Finance Minister. General Huerta was elected Provisional President after the civil war of 1920, but was defeated in the Presidential elections which returned General Alvaro Obregon. De la Huerta says, however, that he will not accept nomination and feels himself strongly bound to Calles...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...
...Obregon's original program has been "national reconstruction, which is to lift Mexico from turbulence and rebellion to a place of dignity and credit among the nations of the world." Today, Mexico admittedly is more at peace than at any time in the last decade. The important revolutionists are dead or in enforced retirement; the Villistas are quiet; lesser malcontents alone still pursue their business sacking small villages, pillaging haciendas, or accepting the money of sanguine rebels on the American side of the border. But peace, prosperity and human perfection are not to be expected all at once. The Mexican...