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Event war Americas

Cristero War

1926 CE – 1929 CE

Armed uprising in western Mexico by Catholic peasants against the anticlerical policies of the post-revolutionary government, particularly restrictions on the Catholic Church.

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1926–1929 Mexican rebellion

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Conflict · Americas

Cristero War

1926 CE – 1929 CE

Armed uprising in western Mexico by Catholic peasants against the anticlerical policies of the post-revolutionary government, particularly restrictions on the Catholic Church. Approximately 90,000 people died in three years of fierce fighting.

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