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Miguel Casey

Miguel Casey of the Mexico City Herald.

The Mexico City Herald is a major newspaper in the United States of Mexico based in the capital city of Mexico City. The 5 June, 6 June, and 18 June 1905 issues published claims by a Mexicano peasant named Carlos Feliz that he had thrown the bomb that killed President Omar Kinkaid on 7 December 1879 as part of the terror campaign being conducted by the Moralistas. Sobel notes that Feliz had no supporting evidence for his claim.

Sobel cites the 16 April 1920 issue of the Herald for quotations from President Emiliano Calles' address to Congress the day before on his determination to abolish slavery in Mexico. The Herald's Miguel Casey wrote of a confrontation between Calles and an anti-manumission mob in the 22 September issue: "The President said nothing, but his eyes challenged those about him. Never before had I seen such an act of bravery. At that moment Calles was not a president, a general, or even the hero of Chapultapec. He was El Primero, the legendary matador, facing the bull. I do not know whether Calles thought of this before he entered the plaza; I doubt it very much. But, by this act alone, he won the day not only for manumission, but for his own reputation. Now he has done it all. No Mexican has ever so drained the cup, and so magnificently." Six months later, the Herald quoted Calles in its 19 February 1921 issue saying that he intended to pursue matters "even more pressing than the freeing of a small number of slaves."

Sobel quotes from the 23 March 1923 issue of the Herald for the text of Calles' address the Congress the day before, in which he proposed to hold plebiscites in the five territories ruled by Mexico since their conquest by Benito Hermión in the late nineteenth century.

A story concerning a vitavised interview of Senator Alvin Silva on 14 November 1931 appeared in the next day's issue of the Herald.

The Herald's Mark Jernigan published a story on 18 July 1936 in which he quoted former Secretary of State Albert Ullman on whether he expected President Silva's aggressive foreign policy: "We could not guess."

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