Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the crushing force of the ruthless hand of President Elias Plutarco Calles, called by some the strongest man in Mexico since the despot, Porfirio Diaz, the recent revolt (TIME, Oct. 17) was put down, the rebels routed...
...there had been unnecessary brutality and killings. In all 82 executions were reported. For example it was alleged that General Francisco Serrano had been "murdered" while at the dinner table with 13 of his aides. None could doubt that there had been much cruel and useless bloodshed; but the revolt was seemingly over, despite rumors to the contrary and assertions of bandit terrorism, which probably had nothing to do with the revolt. And that, in the opinion of most observers, was that. Protests from foreign powers seemed unlikely, the rumpus being a purely local affair...
Last week the Mexican presidential campaign broke out in bloody revolt and boded well to be settled on the battlefields rather than in the ballot boxes. As the week wore on the summary executions of one of the two opposition candidates and many supporting generals seemed to hold promise of a complete annihilation of the opposition to the candidacy of General Alvaro Obregon, one-armed, onetime President of Mexico, whom the Calles administration is tacitly supporting, just as the Obregon administration, when it was in power, tacitly supported President Elias Plutarco Calles. Then as now there was a revolution; then...
...immediate cause of the attempted revolution was the opposition of Generals Serrano and Gomez to the re-election of General Obregon, they being the only candidates standing against Obregon. The fundamental cause of the revolt may be attributed to the almost traditional resort to arms of Mexican aspirants to the presidential power, as witness a long line of successful and unsuccessful revolutions...
Despite statements from the Calles government that the revolt had been "smothered," it was by no means certain that the situation was so roseate as officials painted it. Rumors continued to pour in stating that the revolt was shaping itself into a veritable revolution. Somewhere between the two sets of statements the truth was doubtless approximated. But there was no denying that the heavy hand of the Calles forces had discouraged the revolters for the time being and had driven them into the mountains and had therefore rendered them comparatively innocuous. This being so, General Alvaro Obregon remained...