Evening star., 1935-07-24
Garrido, Called Most Hated
Man in Country, Falls
in TabaSCo.
FEDERAL Government
INTERVENES FOR PEACE
Governor of Tamaulipas, Long
Unpopular, Is Target in At
tacks by Citizens.
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, July 24.-The
federal government stepped firmly
today into a peasant uprising which
caused the apparent downfall of
Thomas Garrido Canabal, dictator of
the State of Tabasoo, and threatened
to overthrow the Governor Of the State
of Tamaulipas.
President Lazaro Cardenas directed
the removal of Garrido'S governor,
Miguel Lastra, and replaced military
commander friendly to Garrido by one
known to be loyal to the federal gov
eminent.
Tabasco went under semi-military
control
In a sudden turn Of the political
wheel of fortune, Garrido was reported
reliably to be preparing to 60 into
exile abroad and to abandon the
Southern Gulf Coast State in which
his socialistic program prevailed for
eight years.
The new Tabasco military COM
mander, Gen. Miguel Henriquez. an
nounced steps had been taken to pre-
vent further political agitation in the
State and that order was being main
tanned by the federal forces.
Gen. Aureo Calles-no relation to
Gen. Plutarc6 Elias Gales. former
President and Iron man." against
whose followers the uprisings were
considered directed-was named sub
stitute governor by the federal con-
gress. He decided to go tomorrow TO
Tabasco
Uprising in Tamaulipas.
In Tamaulipas. Gov Antonio VIII
larreal, long unpopular with the
peasants, was the target of popular
uprising which was sweeping nearly
the entire State from Nuevo Laredo
and Matamoros on the Texas border 10
Tampico in the south
Informed circles here said that
even if the agrarian movement, also
aimed at municipal authorities
throughout the state, fails to develop
further, the days of Villarreal as gov
ernor were evidently numbered.
Silvano Barba Gonzalez. secretary
of interior, few to the Tamaulipas
state capital, Ciudad Victoria, to in
vestigate what Cardenas' secretary de-
Scribed as q serious situation"
1t was predicted that on his return
the permanent commission of Con-
gress might take action similar to
that in the case of iTabasco.
This belief was strengthened by re-
ports that Emilio Portes Gil, president
of the National Revolutionary party
and political opponent of Villarreal,
was behind the movement to oust him.
The governor, in telephone inter-
view, said he would be able to DOM
mate the situation, but admitted that
several thousand agrarians opposed to
him were massed in Ciudad Victoria.
He said at least 100000 of his sup
porters were disposed to defend him
with blood and fire"
Officers Abandon Posts.
DR.. Villarreal insisted that he would
not resign, but lacking the support OF
Federal authorities he was not con-
ceded much chance of resisting sue
eessfully any move to depose him.
officials of % municipalities were
known to have been forced to aban-
don their offices. Fourteen others
withdrew their recognition OF VIII
larreal as governor.
Capital students organized mon
ster demonstration in celebration OF
the steps against Garrido, who was
secretary of agriculture until six
months ago, and who became one OF
the richest men in Mexico during his
eight-year state rule.
Messages of congratulation poured
into Guadalajara, where President
Cardenas was studying agrarian prob
lens.
Although the President, in his mes
sage to the Permanent Mission OF
Congress last night asking the removal
of Lastra, did not make any definite
reference to Garrido, he said the gov
ernor of Tabasco was under the in
fiuence of outside forces"
Garrido's sponsorship of the radi-
cal red shirt movement and the anti
church campaign had caused some
newspapers to designate him as the
"most-hated man in Mexico"
A group of students entered the
state recently to- oppose him. Four
of them died under machine gun fire
10 days ago at Villa HermoSa.
The National Revolutionary party
announced that the Tabasco State
elections, scheduled for early August,
have been postponed indefinitely.