Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/6432.

Proclamation of the Independence of the State of Coahuila.

[Translation.]

Venustiano Carranza, Constitutional Governor of the free and sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, to the inhabitants thereof, greeting:

Know ye that the Congress of this State has decreed as follows:

The XXII Constitutional Congress of the free, independent and sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza decrees:

Number 1421.

  • Article 1. General Victoriano Huerta is not recognized in his character of Chief of the Executive Power of the Republic, which he alleges to have been conferred upon him by the Senate; and none of his acts and orders in that capacity are recognized.
  • Article 2. Extraordinary powers are granted to the Executive of the State in all the branches of the Public Administration in order that he may suppress any that he may see fit to suppress and in order that he may proceed to arm forces to aid in the support of constitutional order in the Republic.

Let the Governments of the other States and the Chiefs of the Federal Forces, Rurales and Auxiliaries of the Federation be urged to second the attitude of the Government of this State.

Done in the Hall of Sessions of the Congress of the State this nineteenth day of February, 1913.

[Signatures, etc.]

Let this decree be printed, published and observed.

V. Carranza.

Saltillo , February 19, 1913.