Kapitel: Secretara de Gobernacin, Emilio Portes Gil, Lzaro Crdenas Del Ro, Juan Camilo Mourio, Plutarco Elas Calles, Fernando Gutirrez Barrios, Miguel Alemn Valds, Luis Echeverra lvarez, Ignacio Garca Tllez, Jorge Carpizo Mcgregor, Ramn Corral, Manuel Romero Rubio. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Plutarco Elas Calles (September 25, 1877 - October 19, 1945) was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928-1935, a period known as the maximato. Calles is most noted for his fierce oppression of Catholics which led to the Cristero War, a civil war between Catholic rebels and government forces that erupted as a reaction against his anticlerical policies, and for founding the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Party, or PNR), which eventually became the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) - which governed Mexico for more than 70 years. His father being an alcoholic and his parents unmarried, Elas Calles grew up in poverty and deprivation. He took the last name of Calles from the uncle who raised him after the death of his mother, Maria de Jess Campuzano. Elas is his father's family name, a criollo family prominent in the Provincias Internas, most often written out as Elas Gonzlez. Calles worked many different jobs from a bartender to a schoolteacher. Calles had a keen sense of political opportunity. He was a supporter of Francisco I. Madero, under whom he became a police commissioner, and his ability to align himself with the political winners of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) allowed him to quickly move up the ranks, attaining the rank of general in 1915. He led the Constitutional Army in his home state Sonora, and managed to repel the conventionalists of Jos Mara Maytorena and Pancho Villa in the Battle of Agua Prieta in 1915. In 1915, Elas Calles became governor of Sonora and became...http://booksllc.net/?l=de