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Obregon, Alvaro (d. 1928)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1928 Jul 18 p. 1
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text of obituary:
Death of Mexican President Elect may Mean Revolution.
The whole American continent was shocked at the news of the assassination of President-elect General Alvaro Obregon while attending a banquet given in his honor by some close political friends in the village of San Angel (12 miles from Mexico City) on Tuesday July 17 at 2:20 P. M. Serious trouble is brewing in Mexico and Mennonites living in several parts of Mexico will certainly be affected if Calies should find himself unable to suppress the revolutionary elements scattered all over the land.
The assassination is considered to be only a part of a well laid plan to assassinate several of the most powerful political and high military leaders of Mexico as revealed by notes found on the person of the assassin. The assassin was a cartoonist who was making sketches of several of the notables present as they sat around the banguet table. A band was playing and all guests, including Obregon, who sat at the head of the table, were busy in conversation. Suddenly the cartoonist rose and approached General Saenz asking permission to show his cartoon to the guest of honor. He turned to Obregon, pretended to show him the cartoons and then with a gun which he had concealed under the papers, fired directly into the president-elect's body.