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Álvaro Obregón

The pragmatic general who shaped post-revolutionary Mexico.

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Álvaro Obregón

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Álvaro Obregón was a Mexican revolutionary general and president whose presidency included educational reform, the flourishing of Mexican muralism, moderate land reform, and labor laws.[1] José de León Toral assassinated Obregón during the Cristero War before he could start his second term.[2]

Key facts and history

He was quickly promoted to colonel before resigning in December 1912.[3] Obregón won the 1928 election but was assassinated by José de León Toral before beginning his second term.[2] Álvaro Obregón was the eighteenth child of Francisco Obregón and Cenobia Salido, born in Siquisiva, Municipality of Navojoa, Sonora.[4] Francisco Obregón died in 1880, the same year Álvaro was born; his mother and older sisters Cenobia, María, and Rosa raised him in very straitened circumstances.[5][6]

An elementary level formal education came from a school in Huatabampo run by his brother José.[7]

What the research sources say

Historian Linda B. Hall stated that "Álvaro Obregón stood out as the organizer, the peacemaker, the unifier"[2] According to Hall, Obregón's assassination precipitated a political crisis that led to Calles founding the National Revolutionary Party.[2] Hall documented that Sonora's economy was more closely tied to the U.S. than central Mexico, exporting cattle hides and garbanzos.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cline, Howard F. The United States and Mexico. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1961, p. 208. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hall, Linda B. Alvaro Obregón: Power and Revolution in Mexico, 1911–1920. College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press 1981, 3 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Krauze, p. 379. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Buchenau, The Last Caudillo, 32 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Krauze, Enrique (1997). (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Krauze,; Voss, Stuart F. "Alvaro Obregón Salido". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, v. 4, 212. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dulles, John F.W. Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936. Austin: University of Texas Press 1961, 4.; Krauze,; Hall, Alvaro Obregón, 23. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Álvaro Obregón" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hall, Alvaro Obregón, 10–11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Álvaro Obregón (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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