Eulalio Gutierrez Ortiz
Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz (Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, February 2, 1881 - Saltillo, Coahuila, August 12, 1939) was a Mexican military and politician, president of Mexico on November 6, 1914 to January 16, 1915, provisionally by mandate of the Aguascalientes Convention.
Early Years
He was born on February 2, 1881 in the Hacienda de Santo Domingo, municipality of Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, to his parents Jesús Gutiérrez and Ciriaca Ortiz.
In his childhood he dedicated himself to shepherding, in addition to studying at the "Ignacio Zaragoza" school; Later, he was a merchant and miner in Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas. This last activity allowed him to master the handling of explosives
Forerunner of the Mexican Revolution
Eulalio Gutiérrez entered the armed forces in 1900, at the age of 19, to prevent the coming to power of a municipal president imposed against the will of the people, through a fraudulent election. According to his Service Sheet issued by the Secretary of War and Navy (currently Secretary of National Defense), the rebellion took place from September 15 to 25, 1900. This action cost him his freedom.
From his youth he participated actively in the ranks of anti-reelectionism, when he formed part in 1905 in the formation of the Organizing Board of the Mexican Liberal Party in San Luis (Missouri), together with the Flores Magón Brothers, to summon the forces opposition women to prepare the fight against the dictator Porfirio Díaz; for this he formed in Concepción del Oro, under the liberal ideological principles and those of non-reelection, the Antireelectionist Association "Santiago de la Hoz", he was a member of the Mexican Liberal Party of Ricardo Flores Magón and was part of the Anti-reelection of Francisco I. Madero in 1909.
Participated with the magonistas in the armed movements precursors of the Revolution. In 1906 he took up arms in Jiménez, Coahuila and in 1908 in Las Vacas (today Ciudad Acuña), Coahuila.
On November 20, 1910, with the rank of First Captain granted by Don Francisco I. Madero, he took up arms to actively participate in the Mexican Revolution, with important military achievements for the cause in the states of Coahuila and Zacatecas.
In February 1911, after the occupation of Saltillo, he integrated a Revolutionary Junta that would govern the municipality and of which Rafael Cepeda, Francisco Coss, Abraham Cepeda and Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz, Eulalio's brother, would form part.
Between the months of March and April of the same year, Eulalio Gutiérrez fought in the Cañón de los Indios, Zacatecas, in Pelillal, Coahuila, and in April in the San Antonio River, Coahuila. On April 11, 1911, he was taken prisoner by the federal army and confined in the military prison of Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, (now Piedras Negras), Coahuila, from where he left on May 15, 1911.
With military forces under his direct command, Gutiérrez joined the armed struggle again until June 1, 1911, the date on which he joined the troops of Rafael Cepeda. Upon the triumph of the revolution, due to his military actions he was promoted on June 15, 1911 to the rank of major.
Municipal President of Concepción del Oro
On August 31, 1911, Eulalio Gutiérrez is elected municipal president of Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas. On November 15, 1911, he promoted the creation of the Volunteer Corps of Mazapil, Zacatecas, of which he was appointed head.
Pascual Orozco rebelled against then President Madero in 1912; Eulalio Gutiérrez immediately joined the fight against Orozquismo, leading military actions in Mazapil, Zacatecas on February 12, 1912; on March 12, he fought at the Estación del Gato, Zacatecas; on March 20, he fought at Rancho Viejo y Simón, Zacatecas; on April 4, fight in Apizolaya, Zacatecas; and from May 8 to 12, he holds combats in Avilés, Chocolate and Picardía, in the state of Zacatecas.
Faced with the usurpation of Victoriano Huerta and the betrayal of Francisco I. Madero, the same day it happened, the City Council of Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, headed by Eulalio Gutiérrez, immediately met in session and, in a historic agreement, decided to disavow Huerta as president, for which it is recorded in the minutes of the town hall:
...In Concepción del Oro, Zac., at 8 p.m. on the 19th of February, 1913 on the street of Allende, in a house in front of Plaza Juárez, this record was lifted, in which the government of the traitor General Victoriano Huerta is ultimately unknown and he is appointed Supreme Chief of the Constitutionalist Forces to General Eulalio Gutiérrez authorizing him to extend appointments and give commissions in the Mazpila party.
This is how this city council went down in history for being the first in the country to ignore the illegitimate regime of Victoriano Huerta.
Constitutionalist Revolution
In the stage of the constitutionalist revolution, on February 20, 1913, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Gutierréz began military hostilities against the usurping government; On March 15, he fought in Agua Dulce, Zacatecas, while on March 24 and 25, he did the same in the municipal seat, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas.
Signed the Guadalupe Plan on March 26, 1913 and the Constitutionalist Revolution started, by orders of Venustiano Carranza, Eulalio Gutiérrez, was commissioned to agitate, together with Lucio Blanco, the mining area in the north of the state of Zacatecas and the southern region of the state of Coahuila; In addition, he fought in the forces of the Central Division alongside Generals Jesús Carranza Garza and Pablo González Garza with important battles in the states of Coahuila, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí. In this new phase of the armed conflict, Gutiérrez fought in Potosi territory; In Coahuila and Zacatecas, with experience in handling dynamite, he derailed enemy trains to add the convoys to the Constitutionalist Army, for which he was already a recognized soldier who held the rank of brigadier general and with that prestige, he added important victories to carrancism.
Juan G. Barragán, in his work History of the Army and the Constitutionalist Revolution, established that:
...so it was as Colonels Eulalio and Luis Gutierrez fulfilled their task, having in constant check the square of Saltillo, operating throughout the region between the south of Coahuila and the northern part of the states of San Luis and Zacatecas, hindering the movements of troops of the enemy by means of interruptions to the railway traffic of the line that leads to Laredo, in which it was strange to flyJuan G. Barragan, History of the Army and the Constitutionalist Revolution
From April 15 to 25, 1913, he fought in Espinazo, Coahuila and on May 20, 1913 (...) he took the Plaza de Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, in a historic battle that earned him ten days later the promotion to the rank of Colonel.
From June 17 to 30, 1913, he attacked Saltillo (on July 5, combat at Estación Mancha, Viesca, Coahuila) and from July 24 to 31, he attacked Torreón, and for the actions and victories obtained in favor of the Constitutionalist Revolution, Venustiano Carranza, granted him the promotion to brigadier general on September 1, 1913.
On November 19, 1913, he led a battle in General Cepeda, Coahuila; From November 24 to 27, he fought in Carneros y Gómez Farías, Coahuila, and La Venta and El Salvador, Zacatecas, where he was wounded. From December 21 to 23, he held combats at the Berrendo Station, Laguna Seca, Charcas and Venado, San Luis Potosí; from December 24 to 29, at the Espíritu Santo Station, Tolosa and Salinas del Peñón Blanco, San Luis Potosí and on December 31 in El Colorado and Moctezuma, San Luis Potosí.
On January 9, 1914, he fought in Cedral, San Luis Potosí; on January 11 he attacked Matehuala in San Luis Potosí and on January 20 and 21 he again took Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas; on the 21st of the same month, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and with this rank on January 22 he fought in San Eustaquio and Arenal, Zacatecas; on January 24 he fought in Jazminal, and Ávalos, Zacatecas; on February 12, he fought at La Sauceda, Coahuila; from May 9 to 11, he fought in Vanegas, Real de Catorce, Laguna Seca, Charcas and Moctezuma, San Luis Potosí; and on May 22, he fights in Moctezuma, San Luis Potosí.
Governor and military commander of San Luis Potosí
On July 21, 1914, he was appointed governor and military commander of the State of San Luis Potosí. As governor of the State, he promoted urban works (such as the important "Venustiano Carranza" avenue, which still exists, he created the commercial squares in ranches and haciendas), he dictated measures on the payment of debts, changes of residence and rights labor, such as the historic and famous Law on Labor Wages, proclaimed on September 15, 1914 in San Luis Potosí and contemplated works of social benefit and the improvement of the quality of life of workers through the creation of the Department of Labor.
On August 6, 1914, the first chief of the Constitutionalist Army, Venustiano Carranza, appointed Eulalio Gutiérrez as head of the Center Division.
In a letter that he sent to Venustiano Carranza, on September 12, 1914, through his private secretary, Manuel Rivas, Gutiérrez informed him about the activities that the state government under his charge carried out for the benefit of the population:
Mr. Manuel Rivas, the bearer of the present and the one who passes to that capital, will inform you of the current state of the government of my office, both in the foreign points and in the capital, where we have sought to undertake some material improvements and having in project some others of great utility; among these is the construction of a new and large dam, and the acquisition of the old, compensating the owners of its value, in order to avoid the city of We have begun to return several intervening houses, to believe it in justice and to make the people more confident of the constitutional cause. In order to straighten some streets, we have begun to demolish some houses, having already done it with the temple of Tequisquiapam and thus remain a beautiful road from the center of the city to Morales.Mr. Rivas himself will inform you of the efforts we are making to increase cash stocks in order to cover the great expenses that demand all these improvements.
Passing the country holidays, I intend to take a tour of the Huasteca, in order to see the needs of those peoples closely and to remedy as far as possible the same.
Mr. Bachelor Rivas will inform you that for the next 16 this government will issue a decree, so that the minimum wage earning workers throughout the state is seventy-five cents a day.
The crops in general are well advanced and augur a good harvest, so I believe the state will have the necessary. All the representatives of the companies have been with me changing ideas and I can say they have the best will to mobilize all the work, provided that the Government provides all the guarantees, which, as is natural, I have offered to provide.
Also the licensee Rivas will inform you about the conduct of the American consul in this, who has addressed to the Government notes quite inconvenience and that it has not seemed appropriate to me to answer. At the same time he will tell you something of the conduct of the German consul, who I know goes also for that one.
Naturally, as we have been working in a medium where there is quite a predisposition, we have encountered some difficulties, which have been overcome gradually and which I believe will be resolved more or less to improve the political, social and economic conditions of the State. In all I have tried to overcome justice and have done what has been on my part to make the noble ideals and plans of the Revolution well established.
On September 15, 1914, he decreed the Labor Wages Law, which established for the first time: the 9-hour day, the establishment of a minimum wage, the prohibition of strip shops and work Sunday. It also decreed that the debts contracted by the field workers would prescribe in the term of one year and that the advances that the landowner made to the worker for the support of his family or wages, until the harvest was raised, would be in cash, in the following terms:
September 15, 1914.Eulalio Gutiérrez, Brigade General of the Constitutionalist Army, Governor and Military Commander of the State of San Luis Potosí, in use of the powers of which he is invested, decrees the following:
Pawn Salaries Act.
Art. 1.o. The minimum wage rate for the worker in the state of San Luis Potosi, counting on the 16th of the currents, will be $0.75 (sixty-five cents) daily and the maximum working time will be nine hours a day. In the mines the minimum wage will be 1.25 (a weight twenty-five cents) per day. In the places or in the negotiations or industries where wages have been paid greater than the minimum that is now fixed cannot diminish those.
Art. 2.o. In the farms, the worker will not be charged with the water or the wood necessary for his domestic expense and will be provided free of charge with the best possible conditions of hygiene and comfort.
Art. 3.o. The wage that the worker sells will be covered in precisely the currency of legal circulation and without discount, weekly.
Art. 4. Trade is free in the state. The strip shops are at all prohibited. Those that exist in the haciendas, industrial companies, ranches, etc., may only continue as ordinary establishments, without the fact that the pawns are forced to buy in them or to receive goods on account of payments or wages. It is prohibited that the owners or employers directly or indirectly favor a trader against others. The owner or manager of any ranch, hacienda or industrial enterprise, in accordance with a commission or delegation of the respective City Council, shall designate a site on purpose that will be destined to market, place of commerce, making, in common agreement also, the equitable distribution of lots among those merchants who request them and those who will not pay other taxes that are expressly determined by the laws. The place of commerce will not have less than a hundred meters per side.
Art. 5. The farm workers can have in them, without paying rent for pastures, water, etc., apart from the domestic animals of any kind necessary for their personal use and that of their family, up to five livestock animals and ten minors. In respect of the excess they shall pay dues, upon authorization of the political authority, by paying them in the meantime half of the ones used.
Art. 6.o. In the future, the debts owed by the field workers shall prescribe ex officio at the end of one year, counting this, for each lender or charge in consideration, from the date of the same lender or charge, even if the worker is taken into account.
Art. 7. It is absolutely forbidden to put any kind of obstacles that somehow hinder the worker or worker who at all times can change residence or simply go elsewhere in search of or accepting work.
Art. 8.o. The order of arraigo for civil affairs does not proceed against the workers and workers.
Art. 9.o. Wages are not subject to embargo. It is also not the case for workers in party or parking or uncovering contracts.
Art. 10. The farmer who gives land to party, providing the worker with the necessary tools of tillage, including the yuntas and seeds, when the lands are temporary and open, will not be able to perceive more than twenty-five percent of the harvest. If the land is irrigated and open and the farmer will provide the necessary elements for the work, the share that will correspond will not be greater than fifty percent of the harvest. In both cases it will be understood that this will be received on the shores of the same work and their driving and transport, where it suits the interested parties, will be taken into account.
Art. 11 (fraction A). The advances that the worker makes to the worker for the support of his family or payment of labor, until he lifts his harvest, will be in cash and will be returned when he collects this, whether the worker sells what he owes him or pays his owed to the domicile or that he agrees to take seeds or what the worker has, provided that it is at the price of the nearest square and with deduction only of the freights that they report.
Art. 11 (fraction B). It is considered a pawn debt, redeemable under the conditions established by the previous fraction, up to the amount of $50.00 (five pesos) per year, considering what exceeds that amount as a civil debt subject to existing laws.
Art. 12. The government will establish in this city an office that will be called "Department of Work" which will be headed by a director with the number of competent employees, and which will know of all matters relating to work. It will seek the improvement of the working class and, especially, that this law will be effective and will investigate the supply and demand for work, so that workers can easily find work and improve their situation. The same "Department of Work" will ensure that companies raise, in relation to their capital and profits, funds that are intended for charitable works for their own workers.
Transitory.
Art. 1.o. The benefits of this law are in no case at all.
Art. 2.o. Popular action is granted for the denunciation of the infractions.
Art. 3.o. All complaints concerning their transgressions shall be through the immediate political authorities, so that they may be made known to the Executive.
Art. 4. It's the faculty of Given at the Government Palace of the State of San Luis Potosí, 15 days from the month of September 1914.
Eulalio Gutiérrez
Leon Flores, Senior Officer.
During his government in San Luis Potosí, he incorporated into his ranks figures of great importance such as Jesús Silva Herzog who, upon receiving the "Eduardo Neri" in the Chamber of Deputies, on October 9, 1972, he expresses in his speech:
...I made myself left when I joined General Eulalio Gutiérrez's brigade at the age of 21 in the City of San Luis Potosí, in the distant year of 1914 and I have remained a leftist man...
President of the Republic
After the Torreón Conferences held from July 4 to 8, 1914 between the Northern Division and the Constitutionalist Army, to settle the differences between Francisco Villa and Venustiano Carranza, the Plan of Guadalupe was added with various clauses, including the ones that stand out:
In taking possession of the first head of the Constitutionalist Army in accordance with the Guadalupe Plan, of the position of the Acting President of the Republic, he shall convene a Convention which shall aim to discuss and establish the date on which the elections are verified, the government programme to be implemented by elected officials and other matters of national interest. The Convention shall consist of representatives of the Constitutionalist Army appointed in boards of military chiefs, on the basis of one delegate for every thousand troops. Each delegate to the Convention shall certify its character by means of a credential that shall be visad by the Chief of the respective Division
After the triumph of the Constitutionalist Revolution, on August 15, 1914, Venustiano Carranza sent a telegram on September 4, 1914 to Eulalio Gutiérrez and all the governors and chiefs with command of forces in which he was summoned to a meeting that would be held in Mexico City as of October 1 to establish the programs to which the provisional government of the republic would be subject.
On October 1, 1914, the generals and governors of the states met in Mexico City, in the facilities of the Chamber of Deputies, on Calle de Donceles, to begin the work of the Board that later would be the Revolutionary Convention.
At the opening of these works, Venustiano Carranza attended, who read a report on the Revolution he led and, according to Vito Alessio Robles, who served as secretary of the Board, at the end Carranza himself expressed:
You entrusted me with the command of the Army, you put into my hands the Executive Power of the Union, these two sacred deposits cannot be delivered by me without mention of my honor and without ruin of the country, at the request of a group of discarded leaders, dominated by a bandit and some ambitious politicians, to whom nothing the Homeland owes in the present struggle. I can only deliver it and deliver it right now to the chiefs gathered here. I look forward to the immediate resolution of you, manifesting to you that I am withdrawing from the Convention from now on to leave you in complete freedom, for sure that your decision will be inspired by the supreme good of the homeland.
Since the beginning of the work of the convention, the participation of Eulalio Gutiérrez stands out. On October 2, the Assembly resolved to designate a board of directors and Gutiérrez was elected president of the convention's work, being also designated as first vice president Francisco Murguía; Second Vice President Francisco P. Mariel; and secretaries Marciano González, Federico Montes, Gregorio Osuna and Samuel M. Santos.
On October 4, the assembly agreed to transfer its work to the city of Aguascalientes, considering it a neutral city and being able to count on the presence of other revolutionary factions such as the Northern Division and the Southern Liberation Army.
The works resumed, as of October 10, at the Morelos Theater in the capital of Aguascalientes, which is why this Revolutionary Junta was commonly designated as the "Aguascalientes Convention."
With the presence and participation of the members of all the revolutionary groups in the assembly (carrancistas, villistas and zapatistas), it declares itself sovereign, and stands as the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention. The delegates solemnly swore before the national flag to respect the agreements of the convention and stamped their signature on the national flag.
On October 31, 1914, at 11:30 p.m., the assembly approved by a majority of 97 votes to 20, the dismissal of Venustiano Carranza as first chief of the Constitutionalist Army and of Francisco Villa as Head of the Northern Division. Eulalio Gutiérrez voted in favor of both dismissals.
According to the chronicle of Vito Alessio Robles, in his work "The Sovereign Revolutionary Convention" at midnight on October 31, Pánfilo Natera, in his capacity as vice president of the board of directors, submitted for discussion the appointment of a interim president of the republic. After extensive discussions that, with a recess decreed on the morning of November 1 and another one during the night of the same day, work was resumed at 10:30 p.m. and the election of the president proceeded. of the Republic. After the scrutiny, Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz was elected president of the republic with 88 votes, Juan C. Cabral obtained 37 votes, José Isabel Robles 2 votes and Eduardo Hay 1 vote.
Vito Alessio Robles narrated Gutiérrez's election as follows:
Done the computation, General Eulalio Gutiérrez was elected for eighty-eight votes. General Juan C. Cabral, for whom all the delegates of the Northern Division voted, obtained thirty-seven. General José Isabel Robles, two and General Eduardo Hay, one.As the result of the vote was known, everyone shouted with enthusiasm: Long live General Eulalio Gutiérrez! Long live the Convention! Long live the Revolution! Long live Carranza! Long live Villa! Long live Zapata! Long live Mexico!
The Vice-President General Pánfilo Natera, with his high stature and holding the historic flag of the Convention with his right hand, made the declaration: General Eulalio Gutiérrez, who obtained the majority of votes, is the provisional president of the Mexican Republic.
A storm of applause and victors was heard. They were all jubilious and congratulated General Gutierrez with effusive embraces.
It was 11:30 at night. Soto and Gama, on behalf of the South American delegation, stated that the South Liberating Army accepted the successful candidate with complete allegiance.
Eulalio Gutiérrez, visibly moved, ascended to the stage. Before I could speak, it was noisyly ovated. Finally, with phrases cut by emotion, he said: ‘I thank the proof of confidence that has been given to me; and I protest here, in this place, to fulfill and enforce all the provisions that emanate from this honorable assembly.'''In the few days that I am here, the lords of the South, all the sides, except the reactionaries, will have all the possible guarantees to which all the honest men who seek the good of the Homeland must count. I hope you will help me, and I think you will do so with all the elements of the Revolution and this assembly.
The ovations and the living were repeated. Paulino Martínez made a commendation of the garments of honesty and the revolutionary spirit of General Gutiérrez, offering that the Libertador Army would support him with all enthusiasm. General José Isabel Robles spoke of the intense revolutionary life of General Gutierrez and offered that the entire Northern Division, as one man and with the spirit at high, would obey the new president.
At 12 p.m., delegates left the Morelos Theatre, full of joy and plethora of optimism. All considered peace assured and guaranteed the well-being of the country. The Carrancists had advocated the candidacy of General Gutiérrez and had voted for him, obtaining a great victory. The villists and Zapatistas had honestly and loyally recognized the victory of Gutiérrez. There was great optimism among all.
In that cool night of November the stars were splendorously shining. Celebrating the recent election the imposing choir formed with the bells of all the temples, the whistles of the factories and the locomotives, the war notes of the clarinets and drums, which played dyana, and the rescues of the shooting.
About the election of Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz, various authors have written:
Eulalio Gutiérrez is, by the way of his ascension, the cleanest president who has had Mexico.”Roberto Blanco Moheno.
Sacrificed Madero, I joined Carranza in Piedras Negras and was with him in Sonora; then I walked with the glorious head of the Division of the North and finally I was with the Convention of Aguascalientes next to that noble, modest and noble, brave and disinterested, the humble miner of Concepción del Oro that was called Eulalio Gutiérrez.Aguirre Benavides
..there was Eulalio Gutiérrez, a man from the north who enjoyed a terrible fame because his old mining office had allowed him to become an expert on the trains that had done so much damage to the orchard government. I didn't know Gutierrez but because of his fame... we embraced and a lasting friendship was sealed. Neither Gutierrez nor anyone imagined at that time that a week later, after the withdrawal of Villarreal's candidacy, would be President of the Republic, the revolutionary generalte, simple, intelligent and honest. The Convention elected Eulalio Gutierrez as president, third party in discord, a transaction candidate who did not request a single vote, but who was willing to fulfill his duty as soon as he was appointed.José Vasconcelos
There were two candidates for that high position: the president of the Convention, General Antonio I. Villarreal, and General Eulalio Gutiérrez, who had distinguished himself in the struggle for freedom. The Aguascalientes Convention appointed General Eulalio Gutiérrez as interim president, intelligent, honest. He was one of the first fighters since before the figure of Madero emerged. As the timber regime was overthrown, he immediately placed himself at the command of the governor of Coahuila to accompany him in his patriotic adventure. I was now going to play an important role in national life.Miguel Alessio Robles
Eulalio Gutiérrez assumed the position of president of the republic on November 6, 1914. His cabinet was made up of Lucio Blanco in the Interior; José Vasconcelos in Public Instruction and Fine Arts; Valentín Gama in Development; Congratulations Villarreal in the Treasury; José Isabel Robles in War and Navy; Manuel Palafox in Agriculture; Manuel Chao as Regent of the Federal District; Mateo Almanza as commander of the Mexican Garrison and Pánfilo Natera as president of the Supreme Military Court. A month later the revolutionary leaders Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata took Mexico City. After seeing himself manipulated by Villa's troops, he decided to leave the capital on January 16, 1915 and transfer his government to San Luis Potosí, where he declared Villa and Carranza traitors of the "revolutionary spirit"; and he formally resigned from the position on June 2, 1915.
Senator of the Republic
After going into exile in the United States, he returned to Mexico in 1920 to Álvaro Obregón to the Agua Prieta Plan.
He was elected senator for the state of Coahuila in 1920 and 1924.
After publishing his rejection of the reelection of Álvaro Obregón and the maximato of Plutarco Elías Calles, he joined the rebellion of José Gonzalo Escobar.
After his defeat, he went into exile in San Antonio, Texas and did not return until 1935. Four years later he died in the city of Saltillo.
Acknowledgments to its historical trajectory
Dozens of schools in the country honor the memory of Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz by bearing his name. Communities, avenues, streets and colonies throughout Mexico bear the name of the distinguished Coahuilense.
Name in Gold Letters in the Congress of Coahuila
On February 4, 2006, the then governor of Coahuila, Humberto Moreira Valdés, signed an initiative decree requesting the H. State Congress to inscribe the name of Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz in gold letters on the Wall of Honor of the Hall of Sessions of the Palace of Congress. The initiative was approved by the unanimous vote of the Deputies of all the parliamentary factions.
In a solemn session, held in the Coahuila State Congress, on May 2, 2006 authorities unveiled the plaque accompanied by their children Luis, Eglantina and Eloísa Gutiérrez Treviño, as well as the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Gutierrez.
His image on the mural of the National Palace
In the period related to the Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera painted 17 characters of the Revolution on the murals of the National Palace, one of which is Eulalio Gutiérrez, whose figure can be seen in front of them, among those of José Vasconcelos and Venustiano Carranza.
His portrait in the “Presidents” Hall of the Government Palace of Coahuila
On May 2, 2006, the Coahuila Presidents Hall was inaugurated in the State Government Palace, where Melchor Múzquiz, Francisco I. Madero, Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz, Roque González Garza and Venustiano Carranza Garza are portrayed.
Monument and Plaza “General Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz”
On June 10, 2008, in Santo Domingo, municipality of Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, the Plaza General Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz was inaugurated, where a monument alluding to the prominent Coahuilian was unveiled.
In addition to the monument, an access road was built, as well as total paving works for the community, as well as actions of a social nature, and work began on the renovation of the "Ignacio Zaragoza" elementary school, where Eulalio Gutiérrez, his brother, studied Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz, Vicente Dávila and Francisco Coss Ramos.
Commemorative coins of the Centennial of the Revolution
On November 30, 2007, the then President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, promulgated the Decree of the Honorable Congress of the Union by which the characteristics of the commemorative coins of the Bicentennial of the Independence of Mexico and the Centennial of the Revolution were established Mexican. Among the 18 figures related to the Revolution, Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz was considered. By virtue of the foregoing, the Mexican Mint began its issuance as of October 2008.
Murals of the Government Palace of Aguascalientes
The Government Palace of Aguascalientes, which for a brief period was the seat of the presidential government of Eulalio Gutiérrez, has on its walls works by the muralist Oswaldo Barra Cunningham, who was a disciple of Diego Rivera.
They narrate the history of Aguascalientes, highlighting the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention held in that city in 1914, which is why the image of Eulalio Gutiérrez stands out in the mural works of this Palace.
On the facade of the Government Palace, to one side of the central door, you can see a quarry plate that establishes:
From 1 to 13 November 1914 Mr. General Eulalio Gutiérrez, elected President of the Republic by the Sovereign Convention. During these days this Government Palace was temporarily converted into a National Palace by the Aguascalientes Conventionists.