← Previous revisionRevision as of 22:47, 23 October 2026 Line 36: Line 36: ==Attacks== ==Attacks== On December 30, 1934, approximately sixty Red Shirts from Tabasco, who had been organizing anti-religious demonstrations including the questioning of God's existence, were involved in a confrontation outside of San Juan Bautista church in Mexico City that killed five Catholics who were shot,{{cite book|author=Gema Kloppe-Santamaría|title=In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YrPrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|year=2020|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-34403-7|pages=47–}} and one red shirt was beaten to death by the crowd.{{cite news |title=6 Killed, 30 Wounded in Mexico As Red Shirts Attack Catholics |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/12/31/94590341.html?zoom=16 |access-date=6 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1934}} The [[Lázaro Cárdenas|Cardenas]] government later arrested 62 red shirts for involvement in the attack, along with three Catholics for the lynching of the red shirt.{{cite news |title=62 REDS ARE HELD IN MEXICAN KILLING |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/01/01/93436528.html?zoom=15.19 |access-date=6 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=1 January 1935}}{{Cite book |last=Carlos |first=Martínez Assad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nVMmEAAAQBAJ |title=El laboratorio de la Revolución: El Tabasco garridista |date=2021-03-28 |publisher=Fondo de Cultura Economica |isbn=978-607-16-7082-3 |pages=314 |language=es}} On December 30, 1934, approximately sixty Red Shirts from Tabasco, who had been organizing anti-religious demonstrations including the questioning of God's existence, were involved in a confrontation outside of San Juan Bautista church in Mexico City that killed five Catholics who were shot,{{cite book|author=Gema Kloppe-Santamaría|title=In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YrPrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|year=2020|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-34403-7|pages=47–}} and one red shirt was beaten to death by the crowd.{{cite news |title=6 Killed, 30 Wounded in Mexico As Red Shirts Attack Catholics |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/12/31/94590341.html?zoom=16 |access-date=6 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1934}} The [[Lázaro Cárdenas|Cárdenas]] government later arrested 62 red shirts for involvement in the attack, along with three Catholics for the lynching of the red shirt.{{cite news |title=62 REDS ARE HELD IN MEXICAN KILLING |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/01/01/93436528.html?zoom=15.19 |access-date=6 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=1 January 1935}}{{Cite book |last=Carlos |first=Martínez Assad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nVMmEAAAQBAJ |title=El laboratorio de la Revolución: El Tabasco garridista |date=2021-03-28 |publisher=Fondo de Cultura Economica |isbn=978-607-16-7082-3 |pages=314 |language=es}} In 1935, after he ordered his Red Shirts to kill Catholic activists in Mexico City who were seeking to return to Tabasco, Garrido was forced to step down and into exile in [[Costa Rica]]. His paramilitary groups, including the Camisas Rojas, were subsequently disbanded. In 1935, after he ordered his Red Shirts to kill Catholic activists in Mexico City who were seeking to return to Tabasco, Garrido was forced to step down and into exile in [[Costa Rica]]. His paramilitary groups, including the Camisas Rojas, were subsequently disbanded.