Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Arnulfo Gomez, onetime presidential candidate, fell into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
General Gomez, one of the principal leaders in Mexico's recent revolt (TIME, Oct. 17, 24), had eluded capture for almost a month in the mountains of Vera Cruz, from which he was said to be attempting to escape to a foreign country...
...signal for the uprising was the mutiny of 800 troops in Mexico City, which was speedily put down. More serious revolts took place in Vera Cruz, Coahuila, Morelos, spreading eventually to the state of Chihuahua, San Luis Potsi, Durango. Government troops were successful, however, in overpowering the rebels at several important points and forcing them to take refuge in the mountains...
Gomez. Although several "opposition" candidates will take the field, none seems so likely to fire both the army and the populace in his support as does General Arnulfo R. Gomez, the Zone Commandant of the State of Vera Cruz, and virtually a local dictator there. Shrewd, he calls his followers...
Midnight noises awakened William E. Chapman, U. S. Consul at Puerto Mexico, in the State of Vera Cruz. Soon Consul Chapman, no coward, was tiptoeing downstairs with a dim lamp as his only guide...