Word: serranos
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Many rumors spread during the week to the effect that 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...
...Obregon administration, when it was in power, tacitly supported President Elias Plutarco Calles. Then as now there was a revolution; then led by General Adolfo de la Huerta, at present an exile in the U. S.; now led by Generals Arnulfo Gomez and, until his execution, Francisco Serrano...
...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...
Within a single day after the first shot had been fired General Francisco Serrano was captured, tried by summary court martial and shot as a traitor. Rumors to the effect that General Arnulfo Gomez had suffered a like fate subsequently proved to be false, he being annoyingly at large. But with General Serrano died no less than 13 generals and private citizens, convicted of aiding...
Leading candidates in the elections, which take place in the middle of next year: General Alvaro Obregon, General Arnulfo Gomez, General Francisco Serrano, the latter two of whom, it is hinted, may decide to join forces against General Obregon...