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Hi Prima,
The insurgentes were the Cristeros who were fighting for the
Church against the Government.
Irma

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Hi, primos y primas. I've loaded a few new photos to my photo album if you want to take a peek. I'm particularly upload challenged...I've tried uploading stuff before and I'm sure it's whirling around in the stratosphere somewhere and destined never to alight anywhere.

I'm glad to hear there is a language option.

But if I missed it and I speak the language consider how difficult it might be for someone who doesn't read English.

Many sites have a button on the home page to choose from:

I hope our Mexican relations know that most of us Pochos do NOT share the hostility displayed by our elected officials, and vigilante posses towards undocumented immigrants. If it was up to me, I would grant a full and complete blanket amnesty.

For Stuart and others interested in the origens of the pueblos of Aguascalientes, I've just posted two pages in Reference materials on the foundation of the pueblos of Aguascalientes. Included are San Jose de Gracia and Rincon de Romos.

http://omega.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/estados/libros/aguas/html/aguascalientes.html

This site has lots of information on the political and social changes in Aguascalientes.

Arturo,

Are there any filmed records of annulments in Mexico? Would they be called anulaciones? I know that annulments have to be approved by upper levels of the Catholic hierarchy, and that the process took a long time, unless the man had money to pay. It seems a man could get an annulment from the Catholic church for himself or for his children if he was rich enough. Women could only get them in certain cases.

Joseph,
Here is the last one I can't think of anything else to ask.

Maria Gutierrez-Uhlenburg

Another question I have is during the religious wars in Mexico during the 1920 through 1927, they referred to some of the people fighting as insurgentes. Who were the insurgentes? Where they the people fighting for Catholicism or were they the people that were for the government?