Toribio Ortega Ramírez

Toribio Ortega Ramírez (16 April 1870–1914) was a leading general in the Mexican Revolution. He was born on 16 April 1870, in Coyame, Iturbide district, in the State of Chihuahua.

Toribio Ortega
Toribio Ortega in 1913

Family

Mexican revolutionaries- (left to right) General Rodolfo Fierro, Pancho Villa, General Toribio Ortega and Colonel Juan Medina

On November 14, 2011, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez visited Cuchillo Parado, Mexico, for a celebration in honor of Ortega, her great-grandfather.

Mexican Revolution

Ortega held the rank of general in the Mexican Revolution.[1] Ortega was one of the first to revolt against Porfirio Díaz on November 14, 1910.[2]

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Bibliography

  • NARANJO, Francisco (1935). Diccionario biográfico Revolucionario (Imprenta Editorial "Cosmos" ed.).


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