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	Victoriano Huerta Victoriano Huerta , 1854-1916, Mexican general and president (1913-14). He served under Porfirio Díaz. After the revolution of Francisco I. Madero (1911) he aided the new president, who, reluctantly, made him (1912) commander of the federal forces. In 1913 he plotted secretly with Madero's... Read more
	Plutarco Elias Calles Plutarco Elías Calles , 1877-1945, Mexican statesman, president (1924-28). In 1913 he left schoolteaching to fight with Álvaro Obregón and Venustiano Carranza against Victoriano Huerta . In 1920 he joined Obregón and Adolfo de la Huerta in the rebellion against... Read more
	Venustiano Carranza Venustiano Carranza , 1859-1920, Mexican political leader. While senator from Coahuila, he joined (1910) Francisco I. Madero in the revolution against Porfirio Díaz. When President Madero was overthrown (1913) by Victoriano Huerta , Carranza promptly took the field against Huerta. Fighting... Read more
	Francisco Villa Francisco Villa , c.1877-1923, Mexican revolutionary, nicknamed Pancho Villa. His real name was Doroteo Arango. When Villa came of age, he declared his freedom from the peonage of his parents and became notorious as a bandit in Chihuahua and Durango. His vigorous fighting in the revolution of... Read more
	Emiliano Zapata Emiliano Zapata , c.1879-1919, Mexican revolutionary, b. Morelos. Zapata was of almost pure native descent. A tenant farmer, he occupied a social position between the peon and the ranchero, but he was a born leader who felt keenly the injustices suffered by his people. About 1908, because of his... Read more
	Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda , pen name used by the unknown Spanish writer who published a spurious second part of Don Quixote in 1614, before Cervantes's own second part appeared (1615). The book is usually referred to as El Quijote apócrifo [the spurious Don Quixote], and its... Read more
	El Capitan El Capitan (1896), a comic opera by Charles Klein (book), John Philip Sousa (music, lyrics), Tom Frost (lyrics). [Broadway Theatre, 112 perf.] Don Medigua ( De Wolf Hopper), the viceroy of Peru, captures the rebel El Capitan, executes him, and assumes his place in disguise. The rebels capture... Read more
	Don Juan Don Juan , legendary profligate. He has a counterpart in the legends of many peoples, but the Spanish version of the great libertine has become the most universal. At the height of his licentious career, Don Juan seduces the daughter of the commander of Seville and kills her father in a duel. When... Read more
	Vicente Blasco Ibanez Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1867-1928, Spanish novelist and politician, b. Valencia. Outspoken against the monarchy, Blasco Ibáñez published a radical republican journal, El pueblo, and was imprisoned 30 times for political activism. His novels are primarily realistic in... Read more
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