Colonia Renacimiento in Ciudad de México, Mexico — The Valley of Mexico (The Central Highlands)
House of Venustiano Carranza
ultima morada, en hombros
del pueblo, el inmortal
patricio, apóstol y caudillo.
C. Venustiano Carranza
5-21-1920 5-21-1941
“Asociacion Patria”
Venustiano Carranza
May 21, 1920 - May 21, 1941
"Association of the Nation"
Erected 1941 by Asociación Patria.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Government & Politics • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US. A significant historical date for this entry is May 21, 1920.
Location. 19° 25.873′ N, 99° 9.801′ W. Marker is in Ciudad de México. It is in Colonia Renacimiento. Memorial is on Calle Río Lerma just west of Calle Río Amazonas, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Calle Río Lerma 37, Ciudad de México 06500, Mexico. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Justo Arosemena (about 180 meters away, measured in a direct line); Hermenegildo Galeana (about 210 meters away); Ramón Carmona (about 210 meters away); Leonardo Bravo (about 240 meters away); General Antonio Rosales (about 240 meters away); Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos (about 240 meters away); José María Chávez (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); General Ignacio López Rayón (approx. 0.3 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ciudad de México.
Regarding House of Venustiano Carranza. Venustiano Carranza Garza (29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was one of the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution, whose victorious northern revolutionary Constitutionalist Army defeated the counter-revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta (February 1913 - July 1914) and then defeated fellow revolutionaries after Huerta's ouster. He secured power in Mexico, serving as head of state from 1915-1917. With the promulgation of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, serving from 1917 to 1920.
Known as the "Primer Jefe" or "First Chief" of the Constitutionalists, Carranza was a shrewd politician rather than a military man. He supported Francisco I. Madero's challenge to the Díaz regime in the 1910 elections and Madero's Plan de San Luis Potosí to nullify the elections and overthrow Díaz by force. He was appointed governor of his home state of Coahuila by Madero. When Madero was murdered in February 1913, Carranza drew up the Plan de Guadalupe, a purely political plan to oust Huerta. Carranza became the leader of northern forces opposed to Huerta. He went on to lead the Constitutionalist faction to victory and become president of Mexico.
Carranza was from a rich, northern landowning family; despite his position as head of the northern revolutionary movement, he was concerned that Mexico's land tenure not be fundamentally restructured by the Revolution. He was far more conservative than either Southern peasant leader Emiliano Zapata or Northern revolutionary general Pancho Villa. Once firmly in power in Mexico, Carranza sought to eliminate his political rivals. Carranza won recognition from the United States, but took strongly nationalist positions. During his administration, the current constitution of Mexico was drafted and adopted. Carranza did not implement its most radical elements, such as empowerment of labor, use of the state to expropriate foreign enterprises, land reform in Mexico, or suppression of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico.
In the 1920 election, in which he could not succeed himself, he attempted to impose a virtually unknown, civilian politician, Ignacio Bonillas, as president of Mexico. Northern generals, who held real power, rose up against Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta, and Carranza was assassinated fleeing Mexico City. Adapted from Wikipedia
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