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José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (22 December 1850 – 13 January 1916) was a Mexican military officer and president of Mexico. Huerta's supporters were known as Huertistas during the Mexican Revolution. Huerta is still vilified by modern-day Mexicans, who generally refer to him as El Chacal ("The Jackal") or El Usurpador ("The Usurper").
Victoriano Huerta was born in the settlement of Agua Gorda within the municipality of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesús Huerta and María Lázara del Refugio Márquez. He identified himself as indigenous, and historians have claimed that his father was ethnically Huichol. He learned to read and write early on and in 1869, he was recruited by General Donato Guerra to serve as his personal secretary. In that role, he distinguished himself; with the aid of General Guerra and President Benito Juárez, he gained admission to the Mexican National Military Academy (Heroico Colegio Militar) at Chapultepec in Mexico City in 1872.
Upon graduating from the military academy in 1877, he was employed by the Corps of Engineers to perform topographic studies in the states of Puebla and Veracruz, where he met Emilia Águila Moya, his future wife. He married Emilia Águila on 21 November 1880 in Mexico City. Together they had eleven children. The names of his children surviving him in 1916 were Jorge, Maria Elisa, Victor, Luz, Elena, Dagoberto, Eva and Celia.
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Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Alfonso Arau (director), Carlos Puente (editor), Carmen Salinas (actress), Alfonso Arau (writer), Angélica Aragón (actress), Evangelina Sosa (actress), Jesús Ochoa (actor), Miguel Couturier (actor), Alfonso Arau (producer), Juan Peláez (actor), Fernando Becerril (actor), Lucero (actress), Alberto Estrella (actor), Evangelina Martínez (actress), Julio Bracho (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, War,Actors: 'Chema' Hernandez (miscellaneous crew), Leonor Gómez (actress), Inés Murillo (actress), Raúl de Anda (producer), Raúl de Anda (writer), Sergio Guerrero (composer), Raúl de Anda (director), Luis Aguilar (actor), José Chávez (actor), Salvador Lozano (actor), José Elías Moreno (actor), José L. Murillo (actor), José Eduardo Pérez (actor), Francisco Reiguera (actor), Joaquín Roche (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Western,Actors: Anthony Quinn (actor), Alex Montoya (actor), Peter Mamakos (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Richard Garrick (actor), Marlon Brando (actor), Joseph Granby (actor), George J. Lewis (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Abner Biberman (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Alan Reed (actor),
Plot: In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province, Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger, and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by a strolling intellectual, Fernando, he supports the exiled Don Francisco Madero against Diaz, and becomes the leader of his forces in the South as Pancho Villa is in the North. Diaz flees, and Madero takes his place; but he is a puppet president, in the hands of the leader of the army, Huerta, who has him assassinated when he tries to express solidarity for the men who fought for him. Zapata and Villa return to arms, and, successful in victory, seek to find a leader for the country. Unwillingly, Zapata takes the job, but, a while later, he responds to some petitioners from his own village with no more reassurance than had Diaz years before., Realizing that with power his idealism has gone, he returns with them to Morelos - specifically to investigate their complaints against his brother Eufemio. New leaders take his place, and, egged on by the always surviving Fernando, they decide that Zapata is a threat to their regime.
Keywords: alternative-history, anarchism, anarchy, army, bandito, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, bolt-action-rifle, cavalry