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Venustiano Carranza was born December 29th 1859 in
Four Ciénegas in the state of Coahuila.
He attended his first studies in his native state, in
1874 he studied in the Preparatory National School in the City of Mexico, but
he has to return to his native state to administer the businesses of his family
, who were proprietors of several farms. He got to have a great political
activity. At the 28 years old he got to be municipal president of his state,
soon he was delegated and immediately senator of the republic and temporary
governor of his native state.
When the movement against the
dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz arose in México, Venustiano Carranza
decided to be united to this and manages to be named Marine Secretary Military
and in the provisional cabinet of Francisco I. Madero. When Madero assumes the
presidency, Venustiano Carranza is elect governor of Coahuila.
In February 1913 Francisco I. Madero is assassinated
and the Victorian Huerta usurped the power. Carranza and other revolutionary
leaders proclaims the "Plan de Guadalupe", in which the government of Huerta is
unknown.
The concept that Venustiano Carranza had of the
revolutionary movement was not shared by other leaders like: Emiliano Zapata
and Francisco Villa, who became opponents of Carranza.
On February 5th 1917 is promulgated a new
constitution, which was created by initiative of Carranza, which summoned a
Constituent Congress.
With a constitutional frame, the elections are carried
out, in which Venustiano Carranza is chosen president of the republic May 1st
1917.
In the year of 1920 a rebellion break out in the
Sonora state, since the government of Carranza invades the sovereignty of this
state and several military rise in arms against Venustiano Carranza, among them
Alvaro Obregón, old official of Carranza.
During this rebellion, Carranza dies assassinated in
Tlaxcaltongo in the state of Puebla the May 21st 1920. |
