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García Barragan planned coup d'etat in 1953 - García Barragán planeó golpe de estado en 1953
Submitted by Mixcoatl on Tue, 2007-09-04 13:35.Although it's already a month old, I just discovered this news article: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/442834.html
He was ousted from his governorship in Jalisco in 1946 three weeks before finishing his term for having supported the wrong presidential candidate, allying with the FPP against the PRI and as it appears now even having plotted a coup. This makes his turning back to the PRI and becoming minister of defense during the Tlatelolco massacre later in his life even more remarkable, and shows the remarkable abilities of the PRI to channel dissent and even incorporate opponents into the system.
Calles Arrives to the US, in Exile -- Calles llega a los EEUU en exilio
Submitted by Hugo Estrada on Fri, 2007-07-13 14:06.
Plutarco Elias Calles, left. with ambassador D Morrow. The photo seems to have been taken while Calles was president.
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While researching Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico and founder of the state-party system, I found this article on his exile to the U.S. from Time Magazine.
Here is an excerpt:
...The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face:
"General Rafael Navarro and three policemen came into my bedroom at midnight where I was reading. I was not surprised. I said, 'I am at your orders.' General Navarro said solemnly, 'By order of the President of the Republic you are under arrest. . . .' I got out of bed and said, 'I consider myself your prisoner. I have no forces at my disposal and I do not need them. You may take me in an airplane or before a firing squad. . . .' General Navarro replied, 'I request you to prepare to accompany me at 6:30 to the Central Airfield.'"
Thus departed Mexico's strongest Strong Man since the late Dictator Porfirio Diáz.
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Se los debo despues. Tendre que traducir el artículo. :P
Aquí está la traducción del segmento que cité:
"[Habla Calles]El general Rafael Navarro y tres policías entraron a mi recamara a media noche donde estaba leyendo. No me sorprendieron. Y dije, 'Estoy a sus ordenes.' El general Navarro dijo solemnemente, 'Por ordenes del presidente de la república usted está bajo arresto....' Salí de la cama y dije, 'Me considero su prisionero. No tengo ninguna fuerza a mi disposición y no las necesito. Puede llevarme en avión o frente a un escuadrón de fusilamiento...' El general Navarro respondió, 'Le pido que se prepare para acompañarme a las 6:30 a la aeropista central.'"
Y así partió de México el caudillo más poderoso de México desde el dictador Porfirio Díaz.
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