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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paradox of a "beneficial insurrection" is readily explained. The revolt was led openly by several Generals of the Army and Governors of Mexican States (TIME, March 11, et seq.), who had machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
President Portes Gil went on to say last week: "The suppression of the insurrection has destroyed all dissident groups and clears the way for realization of the Government's program of Peace, impartial Democracy and vigorous commercial expansion of the State...
...months ago the insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains...
...laws" which the Church is not able to accept, and on which the State continues to insist, chiefly require that members of any clergy before officiating must present themselves at a registry office and subscribe their names and addresses. The Protestant clergy complied with these laws from the first, are officiating unmolested. The Catholics, deeming any obeisance to the existing civil power, however slight, incompatible with conscience, continue to regard themselves as persecuted...
...often mentioned as the financial backer of General Escobar's revolution, was arrested as he prepared to sail for Spain. In his possession was a small black handbag, containing $750,000 in bills, securities and gold pieces, stolen, said representatives of the Mexican Government, from looted banks and the State Treasury of Chihuahua...