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Founded on October 10, 1750, the city of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was originally named Villa de Señor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revillagigedo. Conscious of the two most powerful institutions of eighteenth-century Spain--church and state, Don Vicente Guerra and the other forty-three founding families not only named the town after the Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (Ignacio de Loyola), but also in honor of the current viceroy of Nueva España, Juan Francisco Guemez y Horcasitas, First Count of Revillagigedo (1746-1755). Mercifully shortened to Revilla, the settlement's name remained until 1827 when the town's leaders decided to rename it in honor of Mexico's second democratically-elected president, Vicente Guerrero... Guerrero managed to survive until 1954 when the United States and Mexico finished the construction of Falcon Dam across the Rio Grande. The rising waters forced the remaining residents of that proud community to relocate to Guerrero Nuevo. Others moved to Nuevo Laredo, Laredo, and Zapata. Today, the ghost of a former vibrant community still stands on the banks of a dried-up Rio Salado as a mute testimony to the remarkable resilience of a proud, pioneering people. -- Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M International University
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