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Gen Francisco R. Serrano

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Gen Francisco R. Serrano

Birth
Santa Ana, Choix Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico
Death
3 Oct 1927 (aged 40–41)
Huitzilac, Huitzilac Municipality, Morelos, Mexico
Burial
Cuauhtemoc, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico GPS-Latitude: 19.4050944, Longitude: -99.1525583
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His parents were Rufino Serrano and Michelle Barbeytia. He took part in the freedom movement of 1910. 1 was a military man Mexican revolutionary , served as Secretary of War . Linked closely with the group of Sonora led by General Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles . With them he fought during the Mexican Revolution ignoring General Victoriano Huerta , who usurped the Presidency of Mexico after the murder of President Francisco I. constitutional Madero and vice president José María Pino Suárez during the Ten Tragic . His military career has always been linked with Obregón and Calles.

He started his campaign for president of Mexico in June of 1927 , backed by the Socialist Party of Yucatan, Antirreleccionista Center, the anti re Party alliance of States and the National Revolutionary Party (not to be confused with the organization he founded years after Calles ) against illegal circumstances of the candidacy of his main rival Alvaro Obregon , who sought re-election, violating the revolutionary axiom "Effective Suffrage, No Reelection". The two main candidates antireeleccionistas, Serrano and General Arnulfo R. Gomez , accusing political campaign Obregon of countless crimes and this in turn, is engaged in their rants defame their opponents. Serrano and Gomez plan to apprehend and Obregón, Calles and Amaro during military exercises to be carried out in Balbuena Air Field, but the plan failed.

Serrano moved to Cuernavaca , Morelos , where he celebrated his "holy" and was arrested on October 2 . According to eyewitness reports, Serrano and companions, who included generals Vidal and Peralta, they retreated to the barracks of Cuernavaca with the only order to keep them under surveillance, which is corroborated by the fact that Serrano and companions were armed with certain facilities, as was the cots and have not be separated.

On the afternoon of October 3 gave the order to move the prisoners to Mexico City . A little before reaching Huitzilac , the motorcade carrying Serrano-who was traveling in his private car, and his companions ( Carlos A. Vidal , Miguel A. Peralta , Daniel Peralta , Rafael Martinez de Escobar , Otilio González , Carlos V. Araiza , Alonso Capetillo , Augusto Peña , Antonio Jauregui , Noriega Ernesto Mendez , Octavio Almada , Jose Villa Arce and Enrique Monteverde ) to Mexico encountered an artillery regiment with 300 soldiers armed with rifles Thompson under the orders of General Claudio Fox . When Fox saw Serrano, handed his gun to Captain Garcia Alcantara, stating that "keep it that no longer would need". There was an exchange of prisoners with the confidence that they would be transferred safely to Mexico City. Once in possession of the prisoners, Fox made ​​their hands tied with barbed wire and already in Huitzilac, were forced off the cars to be killed in order of Álvaro Obregón , who in a paranoid delusion [ citation needed ] and suspecting coup, made ​​a bloody purge of military ranks and killed at another time who was his close companion in arms.

The clothes of the dead showed gradations of bullets as well as signals bayonets. General Serrano was made a death mask where clearly visible shock and humiliation he was subjected. In this mask there are a few copies, one held by the Museum of the Mexican Revolution.

The bodies were taken to the Castle of Chapultepec , where Obregón and Calles realized the fulfillment of orders and later handed over to the bereaved.
His parents were Rufino Serrano and Michelle Barbeytia. He took part in the freedom movement of 1910. 1 was a military man Mexican revolutionary , served as Secretary of War . Linked closely with the group of Sonora led by General Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles . With them he fought during the Mexican Revolution ignoring General Victoriano Huerta , who usurped the Presidency of Mexico after the murder of President Francisco I. constitutional Madero and vice president José María Pino Suárez during the Ten Tragic . His military career has always been linked with Obregón and Calles.

He started his campaign for president of Mexico in June of 1927 , backed by the Socialist Party of Yucatan, Antirreleccionista Center, the anti re Party alliance of States and the National Revolutionary Party (not to be confused with the organization he founded years after Calles ) against illegal circumstances of the candidacy of his main rival Alvaro Obregon , who sought re-election, violating the revolutionary axiom "Effective Suffrage, No Reelection". The two main candidates antireeleccionistas, Serrano and General Arnulfo R. Gomez , accusing political campaign Obregon of countless crimes and this in turn, is engaged in their rants defame their opponents. Serrano and Gomez plan to apprehend and Obregón, Calles and Amaro during military exercises to be carried out in Balbuena Air Field, but the plan failed.

Serrano moved to Cuernavaca , Morelos , where he celebrated his "holy" and was arrested on October 2 . According to eyewitness reports, Serrano and companions, who included generals Vidal and Peralta, they retreated to the barracks of Cuernavaca with the only order to keep them under surveillance, which is corroborated by the fact that Serrano and companions were armed with certain facilities, as was the cots and have not be separated.

On the afternoon of October 3 gave the order to move the prisoners to Mexico City . A little before reaching Huitzilac , the motorcade carrying Serrano-who was traveling in his private car, and his companions ( Carlos A. Vidal , Miguel A. Peralta , Daniel Peralta , Rafael Martinez de Escobar , Otilio González , Carlos V. Araiza , Alonso Capetillo , Augusto Peña , Antonio Jauregui , Noriega Ernesto Mendez , Octavio Almada , Jose Villa Arce and Enrique Monteverde ) to Mexico encountered an artillery regiment with 300 soldiers armed with rifles Thompson under the orders of General Claudio Fox . When Fox saw Serrano, handed his gun to Captain Garcia Alcantara, stating that "keep it that no longer would need". There was an exchange of prisoners with the confidence that they would be transferred safely to Mexico City. Once in possession of the prisoners, Fox made ​​their hands tied with barbed wire and already in Huitzilac, were forced off the cars to be killed in order of Álvaro Obregón , who in a paranoid delusion [ citation needed ] and suspecting coup, made ​​a bloody purge of military ranks and killed at another time who was his close companion in arms.

The clothes of the dead showed gradations of bullets as well as signals bayonets. General Serrano was made a death mask where clearly visible shock and humiliation he was subjected. In this mask there are a few copies, one held by the Museum of the Mexican Revolution.

The bodies were taken to the Castle of Chapultepec , where Obregón and Calles realized the fulfillment of orders and later handed over to the bereaved.

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  • Created by: Dave Crouse
  • Added: Jun 9, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112054946/francisco_r-serrano: accessed ), memorial page for Gen Francisco R. Serrano (1886–3 Oct 1927), Find a Grave Memorial ID 112054946, citing Panteón Francés de La Piedad, Cuauhtemoc, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico; Maintained by Dave Crouse (contributor 47355833).