"90% OF POPULATION IDENTIFY WITH CATHOLIC FAITH"

MEXICO DEPORTS 200 FOREIGN-BORN CLERGYMEN

Mexico City, Mexico (JFK+50) On March 15, 1926, Associated Press reports that Mexico's Department of Interior has announced "202 foreign clergymen have been expelled" from the country.

There is a constitutional requirement which states only native-born ministers are allowed to officiate in church services.

AP says that the majority of those expelled are of the Catholic faith.

JFK+50 NOTE

90% of the population of Mexico in 1926 identified with the Catholic church although there was an ongoing state-driven campaign of secularization & anti-clericalism.

SOURCE

"Mexico Deports 202 Foreign-Born Church Leaders," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/ 

Aerial View of Mexico City

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"TO SHOW GENUINE PEACE EXISTS THROUGHOUT MEXICO"

MEXICAN MAN & AMERICAN WIFE WALK FROM WASHINGTON D.C. TO MEXICO CITY

Mexico City (JFK+50) On September 9, 1924, The Chicago Daily-News reports the arrival here in Mexico City of Valetin Ovando, a Mexican, and his American wife "after having walked...from Washington, D.C."

The couple left Washington on March 15 and received thousands of good-will messages along the way to Mexico City.

The Daily-News says that the couple's intent in making the walk was "to show the American people that genuine peace existed throughout Mexico."

SOURCE

"Man and Wife Walk From D.C. To Mexico," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 9, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Flag of Mexico

Photo by Jorge Mendoza

2008

"COOLIDGE SAYS MISSION TO MEXICO WAS A SUCCESS"

WARREN RESIGNS AS US AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO

Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 5, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge accepted the formal resignation of his ambassador to Mexico, Charles B. Warren*.

The President praised Ambassador Warren's part in restoring diplomatic relations with Mexico.  Mr. Coolidge said...

"Your mission to Mexico has been attended with the most gratifying success."

*Charles Beecher Warren (1870-1936) was born in Bay City, Michigan & graduated University of Michigan 1891.  CBW served in the US Army in WWI & as ambassador to Japan & Mexico.

SOURCE

"Resigning, Warren Hits Wilson Policy," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 5, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Charles Beecher Warren

National Photo Company (1925)

Library of Congress

"CHARGE D'AFFAIRS TO PRESENT CREDENTIALS IN MEXICO"

U.S. MAKES FINAL DECISION TO RECOGNIZE OBREGON GOVERNMENT

Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 30, 1923, David Lawrence reports the government of the United States has reached a final decision "to extend recognition to the Obregon* government in Mexico."

A charge d'affairs of the American Embassy in Mexico City will present credentials at the same time a Mexican diplomatic representative will be received as the State Department here in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Lawrence writes that opening diplomatic relations with our neighbor to the South will open up diplomatic relations between the U.S. and some European and Asiatic powers.

*Alvaro Obregon (1880-1928) was born in Sonora, Mexico & served as Secretary of War & Navy 1916-1917 & President of Mexico 1920-1924.  AO was a member of the Laborist Party.

SOURCE

"U.S. Has Reached Final Decision To Recognize Mexico," by David Lawrence, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 30, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Alvaro Obregon

c. 1920s

Library of Congress Photo

"VIVA VILLA!"

PANCHO VILLA KILLED IN HAIL OF GUNFIRE IN MEXICAN TOWN

Parrel, Mexico (JFK+50) On the morning of July 20, 1923, the infamous Mexican bandit Pancho Villa*, commander of rebel armies in Northern Mexico for ten years, and "one of the main protagonists of the Mexican Revolution", was gunned down while driving his 1919 Dodge touring car through Parrel.

As Villa's Dodge passed by, a local "vendor" yelled out "Viva Villa!," a signal which prompted seven riflemen to emerge from hiding and fire forty rounds into the car.  All but one of the car's occupants died, including Pancho Villa who was killed instantly.

JFK+50 NOTE

The above description of the events surrounding the death of Pancho Villa comes from sources listed below except The Evening Star.  The Associated Press front-page story published in the Star on the day of Villa's death is inaccurate.

According to the Star, Villa was killed at his ranch by his own secretary Miguel Trillo who was then shot down by Villa loyalists.

Our other sources say that Miguel Trillo was one of the occupants of the car killed in an ambush in the town of Parrel.   Christopher Minster states that at the time of his death, Villa had "many enemies" and lists the names of six individuals, including Mexican president Alvaro Obregon, who may have been responsible for ordering the assassination.

*Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1878-1923) was born in La Coyotada, Mexico.  After his last raid in 1919, FPV negotiated a peace arrangement with the Mexican authorities which included receiving a 25,000 acre hacienda where he lived with 200 of his men.

SOURCES

"Pancho Villa Slain By Own Secretary On Mexican Ranch," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 20, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

"The Death of Pancho Villa," by Michal Haskew, Wartime History Network, www.wartimehistorynetwork.com/

"Who Killed Pancho Villa," by Christopher Minster, February 16 2019, ThoughtCo, www.thoughtcompany.com/

 

 

Pancho Villa & wife Luz Corral

June 6 1922

by Scott Adams