Word: victoriano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Mexican Governments do not try too hard to wipe out these guerrillas. Some of them, like Mexico's onetime Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, the late "Pancho" Villa and San Luis Potosi State's present Boss Saturnino Cedillo, eventually become genuine leaders, generals and political powers. Cedillo's standing army of 7,000 is let strictly alone by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas' regular army of 60,000. In time of civil war the bandits are cajoled by both sides. But last week somebody went too far when 13 passengers of a bus in Jalisco...
Died. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, 56, old-time U. S. diplomat; of heart disease; in Vienna. He held the posts of secretary and charge d'affaires in many a U. S. embassy & legation. He was in Mexico during the Victoriano Huerta regime when U. S. sailors were arrested in Tampico. President Wilson demanded that the Mexican government apologize by saluting the U. S. flag. Huerta refused; O'Shaughnessy left the country escorted by friendly Huerta troops...