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The last Cristeros laid down their arms at the end of September 1929, ‘and have quietly returned to their homes without bothering with the formality of a surrender … to work on the farms from which they originally came’. ‘It was expected that after the religious warfare was ended a number of the Cristeros would turn bandit. This has not resulted.’
For the Cristeros, who were received as victors in their villages, the festivities of the summer of 1929 had a taste of ashes, despite the renewal of public worship, despite the good relations between Church and state. Although the mass of the people rejoiced without a second thought in what they sensed as a victory, the Cristeros felt that the Church had robbed them of a victory which they thought they were about to achieve with their rifles, and refused to believe in the good faith of the Government.
because it is proud, avaricious, envious and voracious, and wishes to assume possession even of things which do not belong to it according to distributive justice or legal honesty. President Portes Gil, the henchman or representative of the Caesar Calles, promised to conclude peace and to return all that they stole from the Church, and as for the dead, there was nothing to be said, amen! But since the agreement was not in writing, for that reason the donkey went on eating the wheat of my co-godfather.
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- The Cristero RebellionThe Mexican People Between Church and State 1926–1929, pp. 201 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976