Word: valenzuela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragic figure, seemingly forgotten by all concerned, including correspondents, was Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela. whom the rebels 70 days ago proclaimed "President of Mexico." Ruined and ignored, poor Don Gilberto must rue the day last December when he resigned his honorable post of Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James's and listened to the sword- handy gentlemen who swore they would make him President...
England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request...
Thus by a gesture intended principally for local effect, Chief Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...
...sympathies against the rebels and on the side of squarejawed, gnarled-fisted President of Mexico Senor Emilio Portes Gil. Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under no circumstances" would the State Department recognize the soi-disant and really nonexistent Valenzuela government...
This perhaps was unfortunate, for Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, who was Mexican Minister in London until late December last, is a really brilliant lawyer, a keen chess-player, teetotaler, nonsmoker, and a civilian, whereas Mexican governments are traditionally composed of militarists, traditionally corrupt. The nickname which his enemies have fastened upon him, El Capitan de los Cristeros, correctly indicates his Catholic sympathies, but is cruelly unjust in its literal connotations, "The Captain of the Christers...