Manuel Pérez Treviño

General Manuel Pérez Treviño (June 5, 1890 – April 29, 1945) was a Mexican

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and was an important military and political leader during and after the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...

. Pérez Treviño was born on June 5, 1890, to Jesús Pérez Rodríguez and Candelaria Treviño Rivera in Villa de Guerrero in the state of

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

. He was married to Esther González Pemoulié. In 1913, after studying engineering in Mexico City, he joined the Mexican Revolution as a second captain in an artillery unit. After the Revolution, he founded the National Revolutionary Party (PNR, Partido Nacional Revolucionario), which later became the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, Partido Revolucionario Institucional). Among other positions, he was the president of the PNR, governor of Coahuila, preliminary candidate to the Presidency of the Republic,

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, Secretary of Industry and Commerce, and ambassador to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

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and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. While being ambassador in Spain 1936, the civil war started. He and his diplomatic team saved many lives because he ordered to give them asylum at the Mexican embassy in Madrid. He died on April 29, 1945, in

Nueva Rosita Nueva Rosita is a town in the northeastern part of the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. It lies about northwest of the city of Sabinas on Federal Highway 57, and serves as the municipal seat of San Juan de Sabinas municipality. In 1990 ...

, Coahuila. 1890 births 1945 deaths Politicians from Coahuila Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Mexican Secretaries of Agriculture Mexican Secretaries of Commerce and Industry Ambassadors of Mexico to Spain Governors of Coahuila Ambassadors of Mexico to Chile Ambassadors of Mexico to Portugal Ambassadors of Mexico to Turkey 20th-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-diplomat-stub