Word: michoacan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Confidential Engineer. The Hoover of Mexico was born at Morelia, capital of the State of Michoacan in 1877 of a rich, aristocratic family who trace their descent back to 1545. He graduated with an engineer's degree from the University of Mexico, entered the Army, was gazetted Captain in 1911, Brigadier General in 1920. "The late President Carranza," writes one Mexican historian, "frequently employed him [Ortiz Rubio] on engineering work of a confidential nature and also for strategic enterprises...
...appointed Governor of his home state, Michoacan, in 1923 Minister to Germany, in 1925 Ambassador to Brazil, at which time he was dean of the Mexican Diplomatic Corps. Returning to Mexico he announced that he would no longer use the title "General," and much was made during the recent campaign of the fact that Mexico was electing a civilian president. In certain states where the "transition in idealism" was feared to be incomplete, however, handbills were issued extolling the merits of "Señor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Engineer & General...
Notable was the following declaration anent Mexico's Roman Catholics made last week by President Fortes Gil: "In the States of Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
Four days after the Presidential order was issued the entire military escort of a passenger train proceeding through the State of Michoacan were killed when the armored escort car was dynamited...
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores of Michoacan, Mexico, gave consolation last week to religious Mexicans who, although married according to civil ceremony, dared not be married by Roman Catholic rite. President Calles, enforcing his Mexican Constitution has forbidden this; and all Mexican girls could not afford to quit the country as did President Calles' own daughter (TIME...