Enrique Estrada Enrique Estrada Reynoso ( 1890 – 1942 ) was a Mexican General , politician , and Secretary of National Defense . Born in Moyahua , Zacatecas in 1890 . His parents were Camilo Estrada Reynoso and Micaela . His older brother was Roque Estrada Reynoso . As a student at the School of Engineering of the capital , he was one of the students " antirreeleccionistas " resistance that led to the President of the Republic , General Porfirio Díaz , a statement in which he called for the resignation of his office . On the occasion of the danger to which he explained the previous event , had to leave the city and marched and joined the revolution under General Rafael Tapia in 1910 . The triumph of the revolutionary movement in timber , resumed his studies at the Engineering School and he was taught classes in artillery by General Felipe Angeles . During the " Decena trágica " , he defended the legitimate government of Francisco I . Madero . In the year 1913 , chose to leave the south of Zacatecas , in the same year , operated in conjunction with the forces of General Lucio Blanco , who then belonged , under the Army Corps Northwest commanded of General Álvaro Obregón . He was the governor of Zacatecas and Sinaloa in 1922 . Among the positions he played outstanding highlights : Chief of Military Operations Campaign Yaqui , Governor and Military Commander of the State of Zacatecas ; Chief of the Military Operations of the states of Michoacán , Colima , Jalisco , Zacatecas , Aguascalientes and Guanajuato , Assistant Secretary and Secretary of War and Navy , from December 14 , 1920 to March 4 , 1922 . He was the Chief of Military Operations in Michoacán and Colima in 1923 . Delahuertista rebellion . In 1923 , Amaro ' s chief of staff José Álvarez learned of the plot between generals Enrique Estrada , Guadalupe Sánchez , and Fortunato Maycotte to overthrow President Álvaro Obregón . Álvarez immediately returned to Nuevo León and informed Amaro of the plot , who promptly related the information to Obregón . The conspirators drafted Adolfo de la Huerta , then - Minister of Finance , to run for president against Plutarco Elías Calles , Obregón ' s chosen successor . Facing a rebellion with armies in the North , South , and East , Obregón relied on loyal generals such as Amaro to block rebel access to resources and the northern border and to put down the insurrection . Amaro , aided by General Lázaro Cárdenas , battled Estrada ' s forces , defeating them in the decisive battle of Ocotlán . Three days after the battle , Amaro ' s troops occupied Guadalajara , where Estrada ' s operation had been based . The rebellion crushed , the 1924 Mexican election was carried out peacefully . He was arrested in 1926 by the FBI under the leadership of by Special Agent Edwin Atherton while heading a large convoy of armored vehicles and armed men east of San Diego , California , and jailed in the United States for 21 months . Atherton had been alerted by an informant and a Mexican official in " lower California . " He supported the Escobar rebellion in 1929 , and captured the future president of Mexico , Manuel Ávila Camacho , but allowed him to go free . General Estrada Reynoso died on November 3 , 1942 , when the post of General Manager of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México . The city of General Enrique Estrada , in the state of Zacatecas is named after him . Sources . Estrada Reynoso , Enrique . In : " Mexican Political Biographies , 1935 - 1993 " . By Roderic Ai Camp , Austin : University of Texas Press , 1995 : 223 .