Much value is given to institutions such as marriage, and the accepted time-frames for political leadership of those in office. It often comes as a surprise when celebrity marriages or political leadership lasts only a brief time. Tabloid magazines and Celebrity news shows, constantly search out such tumultuous cases, and play them up to the populace; appealing to the general fascination of their audiences. Some political leaders are booted from office after only a short time, are gunned down, or meet other tragic ends unexpectedly. The 34th President of Mexico was Pedro Lascurain, and he saw his leadership end in only an hour, as he was merely a stepping stone in a larger executed plan.
Approximately at the time the military dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz was collapsing, Pedro, at the age of 54, became mayor of the capital (1910).. The leader of the revolt was Francisco Madero, who was running for election and had become extremely popular with most of the country. Lascurain was a supporter of the new government, and was appointed as the foreign secretary.
Laccurain, because of this new position had to contend with the U.S Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson. He considered the new President Madero, to be a crazy person, and was a supporter of Diaz. The Ambassador, Porfirio's nephew, and General Victoriano Huerta, plotted secretly to violently seize government power; unbeknownst to Pedro or anyone else.
In 1913, Huerta and his cronies orchestrated a coup d'etat which erupted Mexico City in violent fighting between the liberal and conservative factions. The Ten Tragic Days is what it came to be know as. Lascurain tried to convince the President, who was being held prisoner at the National Palace, to resign his position, lest he lost his life.
The successors of the presidency of Mexico (under the 1857 Constitution) ran thus: if the leader stepped down, office would be taken by the Vice-President, the attorney general, the foreign minister and then the interior minister. Victoriano had taken care of the first three, which meant that Lascurain was technically the President of Mexico. Huerta saw this as an opportunity to give an air of legitimacy to his coup, an act which spared the new leader's life in the end.
On February 18, 1913, Lascurain took the office of President with the only agenda to give Huerta the title of interior minister, and then resign. The correct leader was then Victoriano, according to Constitution law, as he was next in line. Pedro followed the plan exactly, and gave up his role as President of Mexico in under an hour; sources vary, but say his reign lasted from fifteen to fifty-five minutes. He retired from politics rather than take a position in the new cabinet, and spent his life teaching and directing the activities of a local law school.
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