Walter Anderson

Walter Anderson.

Walter Anderson was a reporter for the Mexico City Times in the early twentieth century. Anderson witnessed a confrontation between President Emiliano Calles and an anti-manumission mob in Mexico City on 22 September 1920, at the height of the Bloody Season. Two days later, Anderson wrote in the Times: "Our posterity will consider Calles a great man; the sons and grandsons of his opponents will praise him as a liberator. But their parents will not forgive him. The Mexicanos consider Calles a traitor to his people; the Anglos and Hispanos have not forgotten he is a Mexicano. The Indians will support him as will the freedmen, but they count for little in the way of numbers. Calles will be president for five more years, and in this time he will lack a constituency. It will be a difficult period for him, and a sorry one for Mexico."