Word: queretaro
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...week before Ambassador Morrow's return, five men stood against a wall in Queretaro. Mexico, were riddled by a firing squad. They had intended dynamiting the train on which Mr. Morrow left the country...
...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
Article 27 of the Queretaro or 1917 Constitution (which declared Mexico to be a federated republic of 28 states), has been the much mooted bugaboo in the proceedings for recognition of Mexico by the U. S. Its terms affirmed that the title to all subsoil deposits was vested in the people of Mexico. This resulted in the virtual confiscation of concessions owned by foreigners. The question arose then as to whether the Article was to be interpreted retroactively. In spite of President Obregon's statement that it was not, foreign concerns still claimed that under the Mexican interpretation the terms...