Word: viscarra
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...telegram, signed by more than 100 congressmen and sent to President Obregon, who was vacationing at a little fishing village on Lake Chapala, alleged that General Arnulfo Gomez, chief of the Mexico City garrison, had commissioned one Captain Viscarra, at the head of 200 men, to assassinate certain members of Congress, in particular one Jorge Prieto Laurens, Governor of the State of San Luis Potosi...
...same telegram alleged that Captain Viscarra and his men, wearing red silk badges, would occupy seats in the gallery in Congress and when the session started would lead cheers for General Calles (Presidential candidate), and that, as soon as the Huertistas answered by cheers for Candidate de la Huerta, they would be shot...
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