Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1929, Volume III

812.00Sonora/479

Plan of Hermosillo, March 3, 1929²

[Translation]

• Article 1: The investiture of Citizen Emilio Portes Gil as Provisional President of the Republic is repudiated.
• Article 2: Those members of Congress of the Union who, directly or indirectly, combat or aggressively oppose the present movement shall cease to function as Deputies or Senators.
• Article 3: The members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation who, directly or indirectly, combat or aggressively oppose the present movement, shall cease to hold office.
• Article 4: The Governors, Deputies and Magistrates of the Federal entities who, directly or indirectly, combat or aggressively oppose the present movement, shall cease to function under their respective investitures.
• Article 5: If, at the time this plan triumphs, there be in the Chambers of the Federal Congress a majority of their members who have recognized or sanctioned this movement, measures will be taken opportunely to designate a new Provisional President, in the manner and under the terms prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic.
• Article 6: If, upon the triumph of this movement it be impossible legally to organize the General Congress, the Chief of the movement shall convoke extraordinary elections of Deputies and Senators as soon as possible, and shall dictate the pertinent measures for the complete and prompt reestablishment of Constitutional regime in the country.
• Article 7: In case the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation be disintegrated, the Provisional President who may he appointed by the Congress shall proceed, opportunely and legally, to the reintegration of said tribunal.
• Article 8: If, with the success of this movement, the powers of some of the Federal entities should disappear because of their having combatted or been hostile to the present plan, the local Congresses, or, in its proper case, the Senate of the Republic, shall dictate, opportunely, the resolutions pertinent to the reintegration of the same.
• Article 9: In case the Federal Congress shall not be reinstated legally upon the success of this plan, the inherent Chief of this movement shall assume charge of the Executive Power of the Union.
• Article 10. During the period of strife, and until the reestablishment of Constitutional rule in the country, the Citizen Chief of this movement shall be charged with reorganizing, by designation of his own, the Provisional Government, for the management and administration of the public affairs of the country.
• Article 11. The Chief of the movement is authorized to make the designations of Provisional Governors and Chiefs of Operations which he may deem expedient for the control and administration of the various Federal entities and territories, until Constitutional rule in the country shall be reestablished.
• Article 12: The Chief of this movement is likewise authorized to dictate all measures which he may deem necessary to safeguard the national interests.
• Article 13: The organized forces which shall recognize and support the present movement, and those which during the period of strife shall expressly adhere to this plan and subordinate themselves to the Chief of the same, shall constitute the ‘Ejercito Renovador de la Revolutión.’
• Article 14: Citizen General of Division Don Jose Gonzalo Escobar is recognized as Supreme Chief of this movement and of the ‘Ejercito Renovador de la Revolutión.’
• Article 15: The Chief of the movement and General in Chief of the ‘Ejercito Renovadór de la Revolutión’ shall have all the powers necessary to direct the military campaign in the country and to dictate all measures of a military character which the success of the movement and the interests of the National shall demand.

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Hermosillo, Sonora , 3d of March, 1929.

2. Signed at Hermosillo, Sonora, by a large number of the revolutionary leaders. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in Mexico in his despatch No. 1526, March 28; received April 2, 1929.