Pánfilo Natera

Pánfilo Natera

Pánfilo Natera García (Rancho La Noria, July 12, 1882 - San Miguel de Allende, December 28, 1951) was a Mexican military and politician.

Natera was from a poor family from the state of Zacatecas who did not have enough money to send him to school. In 1910 he joined the Mexican Revolution on the side of Luis Moya, who supported Zacatecas Francisco I. Madero. Natera turned out to be a capable military and quickly captured the captain. After the victory of Madero, he took part in the Mexican army and fought among others the insurgents of Pascual Orozco and Benjamín Argumedo.

After the murder of Madero by Victoriano Huerta, he joined the Constitutionalist Army of Venustiano Carranza in the opposition to Huerta. Natera was appointed commander of the central division of the constitutionalists. On the side of Pancho Villa he was involved in the intake of Torreón, and then received from Carranza the mission to take Zacatecas, defended by Luis Medina Barron. Natera did not succeed in this, so Villa added to Natera's troops. Together they managed to take it into town and Natera became a provisional governor of the state. However, it meant a break in revolutionary leadership, and after the fall of Huerta shortly afterwards, Carranza's constitutionalists continued the battle against the troops of Aguascalientes, among others, Villa and Natera. In 1915 he broke with Villa.

In 1916, Natera was arrested in Querétaro but was not found guilty and could again be assigned a function in the Mexican army. In the 1920s he fought the De la Huerta uprising and the Cristero war with the government army and climbed to General. From 1940 to 1944 he was governor of Zacatecas for a second time. He passed away in 1951.

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