Word: puebla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when bus fares in Puebla were raised from 10 to 15 centavos, crowds rioted, overturned buses, set them afire; federal troops were sent to restore order. Extremists on both sides, Sinar-quistas of the right and Communists of the left, will try to take, advantage of public exasperation...
Fair Game. In the tiny village of Esperanza, on the border between the states of Vera Cruz and Puebla, a small group of Evangelistas were holding their regular Sunday afternoon service in a private house. In the plaza, clusters of men were tanking up at the village pulquerias. Soon they were looking for a fight, and the Evangelistas were fair game. One Protestant was killed, four others wounded...
...Cinco de Mayo-the Fifth of May-and all Mexico was celebrating the victory won 86 years ago when General Zaragoza's troops drove the glittering legions of Emperor Napoleon III down the slopes of Puebla...
When he found the army of General Zaragoza drawn up at Puebla, Lorencez did not even bother to maneuver for position. The Mexican priests assured him that the city hated the Juarez government more than any city in the land, and would greet his troops with flowers. Lorencez popped away briefly with his ten cannon, then ordered his men to take the fortified convent of Guadalupe...
Maximilian's Masters. Twelve months later Napoleon III, having fired his general and studied maps of Puebla himself, sent 30,000 men to take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...