Felipe Carrillo Puerto
| Felipe Carrillo | |
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Felipe Carrillo Puerto
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| Governor of Yucatán | |
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In office 1922–1924 |
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| Preceded by | Manuel Berzunza |
| Succeeded by | Juan Ricardez Broca |
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| Born |
November 8, 1874 Motul, Yucatán |
| Died | January 3, 1924 (aged 49) Mérida, Yucatán |
| Political party | Socialist Party of the Southeast |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel Palma (wife); Alma Reed (fiancée) |
| Profession | newspaper owner, El Heraldo (in Motul) |
Felipe Carrillo Puerto (8 November 1874 – 3 January 1924) was a Mexican journalist, politician and revolutionary who became known for his efforts at reconciliation between the Yucatec Maya and the Mexican government after the Caste War. He was governor of the Mexican state of Yucatán from 1922 to 1924.
Carrillo Puerto was born in the town of Motul, Yucatán, 45 km northeast of Mérida, and was of partly indigenous Mayan background; he was rumored to be a descendant of the Nachi Cocom dynasty of Mayapan. His parents were the merchant Justiniano Pasos Carrillo Puerto and his wife Adelaide Solis. He was one of fourteen children, thirteen of whom lived into adulthood. Although his family were Spanish speakers, he also grew up speaking Mayan (Mayathan), the language of the neighborhood children.
He was a socialist who favored land reform, women's suffrage, and rights for the indigenous Mayan people. As a teenager during the Caste War, he was briefly imprisoned for urging the Mayan people to tear down a fence that had been built by the large landowners around lands in the community of Dzununcán to keep the Mayans out. He obtained work on the local railways (known as tramways), joined the railway workers union, and married Isabel Palma.
Carrillo Puerto then began publishing and editing the El Heraldo de Motul, which was briefly closed down in 1907 by the authorities for insulting public officials. In the Yucatán gubernatorial election of 1909, Carrillo Puerto supported the candidacy of the poet Delio Moreno Cantón in the three-way race against the Antirreeleccionista Party's (Maderista's) José María Pino Suárez, and the pro-Díaz Enrique Muñoz Arístegui. Arístegui was announced as the winner in what is generally considered to have been a fraudulent tally. In 1910 he attended the Third Congress of the Associated Press of the States (Congreso de la Prensa Asociada de los Estados) in Mexico City and spearheaded a resolution to free the political prisoners being held at San Juan de Ulúa; a resolution that President Díaz acceded to. In 1912, he went to work as a reporter and columnist for the periodical Revista de Mérida run by his friend and colleague Carlos R. Menéndez.
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