Word: yaqui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...
...Revolution A" was led by General Jesus Maria Aguirre and his brother General Manuel Aguirre; "Revolution B by General Francisco Manzo and Governor Fausto Topete of the State of Sonora, renowned for fierce Yaqui Indians and divorces by "mutual consent." The "A" and "B" revolts were synchronous, and the high officials concerned have in common that they are all old associates of the late assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30), and are a supporters of presidential candidate General Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies el Capitan de los Cristeros, a nickname implying he is the military chief...
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
...increased by 34,000,000 pesos over the previous year; 973 oil concessions were registered; 125 out of 147 oil companies registered last December had submitted to the new laws; budget remained unbalanced, but the Government was more than ever determined to enforce rigid economy in its services; the Yaqui rising and the rebellions in the States of Jalisco and Guanajuto (TiME, May 2 et seq.) were noted as disturbing factors in the economic life of the nation...
...crown the anti-Yaqui campaign of the week, came news that War Minister Amaro was seriously wounded by a reputed Yaqui sniper near Ocotlan- though in other despatches he who sniped was said to be a mutinied Mexican trooper...