Posted on 08/19/2019 3:24:06 PM PDT by eastforker
In the years 1926 through 1929, Mexico fought a war over the freedom of Roman Catholics to worship. As a result of the Mexican Revolution, the constitution of 1917 stripped great power from the church, along with half of its enormous land holdings. But it was not until the regime of President Plutarco Elias Calles, who began to strictly enforce the constitution, that an uprising ensued. Supporters of the Catholic Church, who called themselves Cristeros, began a campaign against federal troops and had surprising success after they hired Gen. Enrique Gorostieta Velarde to lead their forces.
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If anyone else has seen this, I would like you take about this movie.
That out of the way, I’ll put it on my Netflix list to view. :-)
Yes I thought it was very good.
It is a good movie. It is too bad this reviewer is ignorant of and/or inimical to the Catholic Church and Catholics. He doesn’t like it that Protestants were left out of a movie that is set in a time when there were few or no domestic Protestants in Mexico. He would be more comfortable if some Methodists or Primitive Baptists were dropped in from somewhere.
I have praised this movie frequently on FR, as well as other chat rooms. The acting and the way the story unfolds are first class. To understand Mexican political behavior today, it is necessary to understand this movie.
The Rockefeller Republicans with the endorsement of the Republican President, delivered he WMDs of that day to the Marxist Calles so he could carry out genocide of Catholics and libertarians who supported religious freedom. In exchange for the WMDs, the Rockefeller Republicans go the Mexican Oil.
PAN political party is the heirs to the Cristeros. PAN president Fox was a libertarian leaning Club for Growth type guy. Social Conservative PAN President Calderon would be loved by the Alan Keyes wing.
But there is one problem. The word is that the Republicans want to commit genocide on Catholics and libertarians. That is based in fact and history. Many Mexicans don’t know the details. But they know they can’t trust Republicans.
Once I get around that obstacle and convince my voters that my candidates are not Rockefeller Republicans, which they aren’t, the PAN people are my strongest supporters.
But when a Jim Rockefeller Ryan runs for governor as a Republican with the avowed goal to murder an innocent man, I can’t get my PAN wife or daughters to vote for that alleged Republican.
The relevant alternative is those terrible Mormons.
I think the movie is phenomenal. What a tremendous actor the child is! It’s a must-see. The only bummer is Communist Eva Longoria miscast as a patriot who fights for freedom. What a joke!
Nor should they.
Mennonites have made a showing in Central and S. America in the last few decades.
They started going there in the mid 1920s.
But not yet during the time of Plutarco Calles. These days there are many here
Well, it’s Roger Ebert, so, of course, he is anti-Catholic.
I saw it. Was not aware of this movement. Overall, I thought the movie drug badly. Good cast (Garcia and O’Toole) but it just didn’t get there quickly enough.
The scuttlebutt is that the Knights of Columbus put a lot of $ into this and lost it.
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