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247:) acceptable to both Calles and the Catholic hierarchy was reached and the bishops ordered the LNDLR to cease military and political activities and the Cristeros to lay down their weapons. A number of Cristeros continued fighting, in what some have called "La Segunda", that is the second Cristiada, but they did so without the support of the Church. The LNDLR's criticisms of the episcopal hierarchy's signing on to the Arreglos were blunted given the Vatican's support of the diplomatic accord, but also because 34: 1454: 232:, he supported the right to freedom to worship within the framework of a secular liberal democracy, and was further motivated by his political ambition (seeing his successful leadership of the war effort as a springboard to win the presidency) and by a monthly salary of $ 1,500 and a $ 20,000 life insurance policy that would support his wife in the event of his death in battle. The Cristeros began to engage in large scale military assaults. 189:
The LNDLR, along with the Catholic hierarchy, initially advocated peaceful resistance to the Calles Laws including a boycott of tax payment and nonessential goods and a petition drive to rescind the offending constitutional provisions. When the Church failed to obtain a compromise from Calles, the
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While the LNDLR served the purpose of giving the rebelling peasants organizational structure and military guidance, the onset, development and character of the war were more rooted in grass roots circumstance and groups. At first the rebellion was only able to sustain suppression in a half dozen
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The LNDLR were excluded from any participation in the peace negotiations between the Mexican State and the Church. They rejected the argument of the Archbishop of Mexico, Pascual Díaz, "that the Cristeros were doomed to failure because they lacked the two critical elements: adequate military
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Soon after the clerical strike began on July 31, 1926, sporadic popular uprisings began and beginning in September 1926 the LNDLR began to discuss revolt, but they maintained the policy of boycott. As the popular uprisings continued, especially in
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resources and the diplomatic support of the United States government. Alberto María Carreño, who was close to the archbishop of Mexico, "questioned the morality of continuing a war that could not be won."
202:, despite the lack of formal support from the bishops, the LNDLR advocated on January 1, 1927, open rebellion to overthrow the regime and institute a new constitution with guarantees of religious freedom. 913: 973: 151: 1180: 573: 1108: 961: 1052: 175: 985: 206:
western states where there was intense popular support and the organizational aid of local groups, the Popular Union (UP), initially spearheaded by
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In 1927, the LNDLR reorganized the rebellion in the west and, in August 1928, gave the rebellion its first military leader: General
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Mexican hierarchy ordered the priests to go on strike beginning July 31, 1926, the day the Calles Law was to go into effect.
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Jesuit Student Groups, the Universidad Iberoamericana, and Political Resistance in Mexico, 1913–1979
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After intense and lengthy negotiations by the U.S. ambassador
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and the covert U, with cells dispersed throughout Jalisco and
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Antireligious campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party
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Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
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Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction
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National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty
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National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty
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Index

Flag of the LNDLR
anti-clericalism in Mexico
Mexico
Spanish
Cristero War
Cristero Rebellion
Mexico City
National Catholic Party
Jesuit
Knights of Columbus
anti-clerical
1917 Mexican Constitution
Plutarco Calles
Calles Law
Jalisco
Colima
Anacleto González Flores
Michoacán
Enrique Gorostieta
President
Victoriano Huerta
Mason
Dwight W. Morrow
Catholic Action




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