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Obregon Elected President: Mexican General Wins Over Opponents
Mexico City, Sept. General Alvaro Obregon won decisively in the contest for president of Mexico yesterday, according to scattered unofficial advices. Portsmouth, England, Sept. 9. The trades union congress, representing 2,500,000 workers, adopted a resolution today expressing horror and indignation at the government's course in the McSweeney case and declaring labor would hold the government responsible if he dies.
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Álvaro Obregón
Land reform
Land reform was more extensive under Obregón than it had been under Carranza. Obregón enforced the constitutional land redistribution provisions, and in total, 921,627 hectares of land were distributed during his presidency. Under a homestead decree dated August 1923, every male Mexican (native or naturalized) over the age of 18 and who had no land or could not otherwise obtain it otherwise, had the right to take up a certain amount of national or uncultivated lands not reserved by the Government.
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De la Huerta rebellion, 1923–1924
In 1923, Obregón endorsed Plutarco Elías Calles for president in the 1924 election in which Obregón was not eligible to run. Finance Minister Adolfo de la Huerta, who had served as interim president in 1920 before he stepped down after the election of Obregón, joined a rebellion against Obregón and his chosen successor, Calles. Over half of the army joined De la Huerta's rebellion, with many of Obregón's former comrades in arms turning against him.
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Re-election and assassination
Obregón won the 1928 Mexican presidential election, but months before assuming the presidency, he was assassinated. Two of Obregón's oldest allies, General Arnulfo R. Gómez and General Francisco Serrano, opposed his re-election. CROM and a large part of public opinion were against his re-election, but he still counted on the support of most of the army and of the National Agrarian Party.
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