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It was founded in Saltillo in 1918 at a congress of labor delegates called by Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. The federation, of which Luis Napoleón Morones Negrete was a major leader, marked a departure from the traditionally-anarchist stance of Mexican labor to a nationalist position. Luis N. Morones in 1925
Carranza's childhood home in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila A young Carranza, c.1870s. José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza was born in the town of Cuatro Ciénegas, in the state of Coahuila, in 1859, to a prosperous cattle-ranching family [10] of Basque descent. [11] [12] During the Middle Ages, his ancestors fought Muslim forces for Castilian kings.
In 1919, Calles travelled to Mexico City to take up the post of Secretary of Industry, Commerce, and Labor in the government of President Venustiano Carranza, the leader of the Constitutionalist faction that had won the Mexican Revolution. Calles's position put him in charge of the Mexican economy, which had been devastated by the fighting ...
Taft and Porfirio Díaz, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1909. Díaz opened Mexico to foreign investment of Britain, France, Germany, and most especially the United States. Mexico–United States relations during Díaz's presidency were generally strong, although he began to strengthen ties with Great Britain, Germany, and France to offset U.S. power and influence. [7]
Also known as Carrancistas, taking that name from their leader, Venustiano Carranza the governor of Coahuila. The Constitutionalists played the leading role in defeating the Mexican Federal Army on the battlefield. [2] Carranza, a centrist liberal attracted Mexicans across various political ideologies to the Constitutionalist cause.
Title first used for all anti-Huerta forces in the north before the 1914 breakaway of Pancho Villa following the defeat of Victoriano Huerta.Venustiano Carranza, the "First Chief" of the Revolution, attracted talented generals to his faction, most especially Álvaro Obregón.
Carranza gave the order to destroy and set fire to the oil fields in case of a U.S. invasion. [24] The Mexican oil industry was a vital source of wealth, and Carranza believed that controlling it was crucial for political stability in Mexico. With destroying the oil fields, it acted as a strategic move to deny the U.S. military.
The Escobar Rebellion was the last in a series of rebellions following the end of the Mexican civil war in 1920, when the left wing faction of Plutarco Elías Calles, Álvaro Obregón and Adolfo de la Huerta (collectively known as "The Sonoran Triangle") took control of the federal government from Venustiano Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta.