General Alvarado is a product of northern Mexico. He belongs with the true Carrancista group in Mexican politics, has been a candidate for president of Mexico and has made many trips to the United States as a financier, most recently as an envoy of the de la Huerta government in search of a rehabilitating loan. All this, however, has come since his spectacular experience in Yucatan. In that state he gained the experience, and political record, which made him aspire to the presidency of Mexico, and earned his diploma as revolutionary financier. There, also, he probably first acquired those radical ideas which enabled him to assert, as he did in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies in November of 1920: “I am a bolshevist, I have always been a bolshevist, and I shall always be a bolshevist.” General Alvarado’s first government work was as a custom-house employee, but he joined the Carranza movement early and early rose to the rank of general through the manifestation of a thoroughly forceful personality and a ruthless preoccupation with his own advancement. Yucatan, in its isolation, in its great wealth, and its easy-going manners, presented General Alvarado with the opportunity of his career. Here were ungathered riches for revolutionary spoils, here was noble opportunity for the uplift of the “submerged 85 per cent,” here was waiting easy military glory of conquest with no one to oppose. In going to Yucatan, General Alvarado was, moreover, encumbered by none of the political and business experience which delays the prompt execution of inspired ideas. Nor was he inhibited by any preconception of the needs of the commonwealth or its chief industry, for this was his first visit to his future principality. All he knew or heard was that Yucatan was rich and that its proletariat was “oppressed,” largely by wicked foreigners of shocking and predatory manners. When he arrived in Yucatan, General Alvarado noted with interest the beauty of that gem of Mexican state capitals, Merida, with its sun-clear streets and its beautiful parks and public buildings. He saw the luxurious equipages and homes and visited the great haciendas of henequen. In the meantime, he looked over the documents in the governor’s office and the stock of gold in the state treasury. He scowled his disapproval, as was the Carrancista habit, at the foreigners engaged in the henequen business. Then his attention was called to the charter of the Reguladora, the harmless agreement of the hacendados to keep the price of the fiber as high as they could and still not soil their hands with trade.