Porfirio Díaz, now in exile in France, stated he would not return to Mexico even if asked to do so.
And in fact, he was never asked to do so, and he remains, now passed on, in Paris.
Antonio Gómez, age 14, was lynched in Thorndale, Milam County, Texas. The victim had killed a white Texan in an altercation. This particular murder was instrumental in the creation of the Mexican American mutual aid society, La Agrupación Protectora Mexicana.
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Twenty-year-old ranch hand Antonio Rodriguez was lynched by being burned alive by a mob in Rocksprings Texas after having been accused of murdering a "white woman". His murder in Texas sparked a reaction in Mexico, which was on the verge of revolution as it was, leading to boycotts on U.S. businesses and partially leading to the Plan of San Diego.
President Taft denied that the US was considering annexting Panama.
Interesting, isn't it? The U.S. was in its high colonial era, having just beaten Span in the Spanish American War, and yet it didn't annext Cuba and it wasn't threatening to annex Panama, where it had constructed the canal. Oh for the days when Republican Presidents weren't threatening to annex everything in site.
Of course, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft weren't demented narcissists.
Former Democratic Mayor of New York City, the city's second Roman Catholic mayor, died at age 55.
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