Juan Jose Rios

Juan José Ríos (Ciénega de San Francisco, Juan Aldama, Zacatecas, December 27, 1882-Culiacán, Sinaloa, April 18, 1954) was a Mexican politician and soldier. He participated in the Mexican Revolution, was imprisoned in San Juan de Ulúa for five years for writing an article against President Porfirio Díaz. He served as Governor of Colima from 1915 to 1917, as Secretary of War and Navy from 1918 to 1919 during the presidency of Venustiano Carranza, and as Secretary of the Interior for a brief period in 1932 during the presidency of Pascual Ortiz Rubio.

Biography

In 1902 he tried to emigrate to the United States, only reaching Mapimí, Durango. Later he was a dependent in the business owned by Don Cipriano Pérez, & # 34; La Palestina & # 34; (later "La Nacional", then "Tienda del Río" and currently "La Michoacana") in San Juan del Mezquital, Zacatecas.

While there, in 1905 he wrote an article signed against the regime of Porfirio Díaz, which was published in a newspaper, it is not known with certainty if it was in the Diario del Hogar, by Filomeno Mata or in Regeneration by the Flores Magón brothers).

As a result of this, he was apprehended by the "Acordada" (rural police) accused of rebellion against the Powers of the Nation and taken on a mare la Prieta to Nieves and from there to the capital of Zacatecas; where he was sentenced to 5 years in the prison for anti-Porfirio political prisoners, the San Juan de Ulúa Fortress, Veracruz.

In 1911, when the political prisoners were released by order of President Francisco I. Madero, he moved to Torreón, arriving at the house that belonged to La Meza on Av. Hidalgo near Blanco, where the Las Cantina was located. Beaches. Then he went to San Juan del Mezquital (Juan Aldama, Zacatecas) later joining the insurgent forces of Manuel Diéguez, one of the leaders of the Cananea Strike and who had his partner in the San Juan de Ulúa prison.

Thus began his revolutionary, military and political career. To the north of the state of Sinaloa there is also a city founded in his name.

He joined the constitutionalist army in 1913, under the command of M. M. Dieguez.-He was Governor of Colima from 1914 to 1917, -Secretary of War of Carranza (1918-19)-1927 Director of the Military College, Head of Military Factory, Chief of the General Staff and Secretary of the Interior with Ortiz Rubio, being presidential that year. In Ciénega de San Francisco, Zacatecas, the Juan José Ríos Museum was founded, which preserves information about the revolutionary. He participated in the so-called "Cristero War" (1926-1929) on the side of the Callista forces. He arbitrator in the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1938.

Honors

• General Juan José Rios, his home town (in Zacatecas) renamed in his honor, formerly called Ciénega de San Francisco.
• Juan José Rios, a city in Sinaloa named in his honor, was formerly the ejido Las Vacas.