Contenido

Ayuntamiento: Síndico, Lic. Conrado Acevedo Cárdenas;[5]​ regidores: Juan Flores Ruiz (dirigente del STIC- CTM),[6]​ Profa. Aída Baltazar Martínez (lídez social y miembro de la CNOP),[7]​ Lic. Ricardo Zamora Tapia (académico de la UABC y miembro de la Logia Ignacio Zaragoza núm. 3),[8]​ Ricardo Torres, Cruz Villavicencio.

El gabinete se conformó de la siguiente manera:.

Entre los principales hechos y obras destacados de su trienio, se pueden mencionar las siguientes:.

Reception of the municipal administration.

• - Political context: At that time, the Mexican political system was authoritarian, with a hegemonic party system, in which the Institutional Revolutionary Party dominated the Federal Government, the twenty-nine state governments and all municipal governments; The president of the Republic in turn had the meta-constitutional power to control the legislative and judicial powers and to appoint all the state governors and the municipal presidents of the main cities. The political control of society was carried out through the corporate system of the hegemonic party, organized into worker (CTM, CROC, CROM and others), peasant (CNC) and popular (CNOP) sectors, and the leaders of these sectors were benefited with political positions and positions in the public administrations of the three levels of government. In the particular case of Tijuana, the city's ruling political class was grouped around the Ignacio Zaragoza Lodge no. 3, founded in 1923 and belonging to the Mexican National Rite"), and to which the first three municipal presidents of Tijuana had belonged from 1953 to 1962 - Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo, Manuel Quirós Labastida and Xicoténcatl Leyva Alemán - and the municipal presidents from 1965 to 1970 - Francisco López Gutiérrez and Ernesto Pérez would belong. Rul-.[9]​[10]​[11]​[12]​ In 1963, the then lawyer Ildefonso Velásquez was benefited by the decision of President Adolfo López Mateos - also a Master Mason of the Mexican National Rite - with the designation as a candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the Municipal Presidency of Tijuana, but he was alien to the ruling political elite of the city, which would cause friction with some political groups. locals; he would try to find balance with the appointment of Silverio I. Romero (founding member of the lodge and former government delegate in Tijuana) as Municipal Treasurer - he would resign in December 1965 - and the appointment of Manuel Quirós Labastida as councilor of the Municipality. He had a productive relationship with businessmen Miguel Bujazán and Miguel Calette, also members of the lodge, who would make important contributions of resources for the execution of public works and provision of services. The Cabildo was formed according to the quota system for political groups, so that of the five councils, one would correspond to the CTM, one to the CNOP and another to the Lodge. The basis of the real political power of the Municipal President Ildefonso Velásquez would reside in his close friendship with President Adolfo López Mateos and the support of Governor Eligio Esquivel Méndez, under whose protection he would seek to carry out his projects to improve the Municipal Public Administration. - managed until then in a patrimonial manner - with a team of public officials mostly outside the traditional political class of the city, seeking to update municipal regulations, the efficiency of administrative functions and discipline in the management of resources - "that the government is a glass house" -, having as its main operators the Municipal Trustee Conrado Acevedo Cárdenas, a prominent cultural promoter, and the lawyer Manuel Corzo Blanco, as Secretary of Government after the conclusion of the President's government period. Adolfo López Mateos (November 30, 1964) and the death of Governor Eligio Esquivel Méndez (October 31, 1964), he would lose his political protectors and his ability to maneuver politically would decrease - in fact, the substitute governor Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo would favor the designation as the next Tijuana Municipal President of Francisco López Gutiérrez, another prominent member of the Ignacio Zaragoza Lodge.

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Lic. Ildefonso Velásquez and Manuel Quirós Labastida, fourth and second municipal presidents of Tijuana. Year of 1963.

The first political conflict occurred at the beginning of his mandate, when he broke with the unwritten rule of the ruling political class of Tijuana to cover up the irregularities of his predecessor in office, exhibiting the detected irregularities. The confrontation with his predecessor in the Municipal Presidency, Xicoténcatl Leyva Alemán, was a consequence of accusations related to finding the Municipal Government with a deficit of (one million five hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and fifty-three pesos), a consequence of exhausted items and deviations, which forced him to request a credit of half a million pesos - with the endorsement of the State Government - to comply with the payment of salaries and bonuses for the month of December 1962, and request authorization to the State Congress for a transfer of items for 496,553.36 pesos and an increase to the Expenditure Budget for 1,420,034.38 pesos.[13][14] The detection of dozens of people who were on the municipal payroll without effectively providing services (colloquially known as "aviators"), who were fired, was also shown in the media;[15]​ extortions of municipal officials of the previous administration towards merchants and individuals, to the detriment of the municipal treasury. In addition, a complaint was filed by the previous Municipal Trustee, Enrique Paulín Rodríguez, related to the management of the municipal treasury in the previous administration. The former municipal president Xicoténcatl Leyva claimed to have handled public funds honestly and described the accusations as lies with perversity and bad faith, political attacks based on villainy and intrigue. previous administration was the one corresponding to gasoline, which amounted to 82,699.28 pesos in favor of Comercial Santa Fe, which had to be paid gradually throughout the year 1963, however the company decided to claim payment through judicial means and the Municipal President's vehicle was seized.[21][22]​.

• - The displaced political group, in the voice of Francisco López Gutiérrez -member of the lodge and future municipal president-, would criticize the formation of the cabinet, alleging that native or resident people must be appointed for public positions, and in the incoming administration there were officials unknown to Tijuana residents, such as the Head of Public Works, the director of Civic and Cultural Action, the Civil Registry Officer and the Private Secretary.[23]​.

• - Among the negative accusations that occurred at the beginning of his three-year term, the granting of a contract to local deputy Miguel Ángel Sáenz to provide stationery to the Municipal Government stands out.[24]​.

• - Attacks on Municipal Trustee Conrado Acevedo.[25]​[26]​[27]​.

Culture and education

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Coat of arms of the city of Tijuana, adopted in 1963.

The adoption of the shield of the city of Tijuana, as a result of a contest called by the City Council. In the call of January 18, 1963, it was indicated that the shield should have the phrase "Here the country begins", said by the President of the Republic Lic. Adolfo López Mateos to refer to Tijuana.[28]​[29]​ The shield would be designed by the painter Salvador Zapata and the architect Homero Martínez de Hoyos.[30][31]​.

• - The establishment of the Civic and Cultural Action Directorate, whose first director would be Prof. Rubén Vizcaíno Valencia who, in addition, would be the president of the Tijuana Correspondent of the Mexican Culture Seminar, established in a constitutive assembly held in the Cabildo hall on May 30, 1963.[32]​[33]​ The Directorate would be in charge of organizing celebrations, mourning events and ceremonies of the civic calendar, and in conjunction with the Mexican Culture Seminar, artistic exhibitions and conferences would be organized.

• - Weekly television program, run by the Directorate of Civic and Cultural Action, broadcast on channel 12, and which served to provide information to citizens about the problems, administrative tasks, actions and achievements of the Municipal Government.

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Together with the President of Mexico, Mr. Adolfo López Mateos, at the inauguration ceremony of the monument to the free textbook (1963).

The construction of the Monument to the Free Textbook in the place occupied by the original Agua Caliente Tower.[34]​[35]​[36]​ The members of the Cabildo had to make contributions to finish funding the construction of the monument, which amounted to 180 thousand pesos.[37]​ The construction of the monument was highly criticized, not only because it involved the dismantling of the Agua Caliente Tower, then considered the symbol of the city of Tijuana,[38]​ but because the municipal government was facing serious financial problems and an expense of this nature was considered frivolous and a waste of scarce public resources, to the extent that the capital newspaper Excélsior described it as "a sample of kitsch, extremely cheap adulation to the President of the Republic."[39]​ Finally, the project was executed: the design was in charge of Architect Homero Martínez de Hoyos, its construction by the sculptor Joaquín Chiñas and the mural by the painter Joel González Navarro. The monument was inaugurated by President Adolfo López Mateos on September 26, 1963.[40]​[41]​.

• - The signing of the first labor agreement between the Tijuana City Council and the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) to protect the rights of teachers and administrative workers of the Municipal Educational System, since the State Congress had ignored the agreement entered into by the previous City Council with municipal teachers.[42][43]​.

Sports

• - The construction of the "Casa de la Juventud" Sports Unit, later called CREA.[47]​[48]​.

• - The construction of the Reforma Sports Unit, which was achieved with the joint participation of the Municipal Government and the State Government with sports associations and individuals. The State Pro Sports and Athletics Board was headed by the Secretary of the City Council, Lic. Manuel Corzo, and contributions were made by the State Football Soccer Association (Juan Reyes), Miguel Calette, MIguel Bujazán, Alfonso Bustamante, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano, the Cuauhtémoc Brewery (donation 125,000 - $10,000 - through Manager Leandro Leal Marroquín), among others.[49]​[50]​[51]​[52]​.

Public services and urban equipment

• - The expansion of the Municipal Palace offices and the renovation of the existing building, since it had been received in very deteriorated condition and in deplorable conditions.[53]​[54]​[55]​[56]​[57]​.

• - Expansion of the Civil Registry office.[58]​.

• - Expansion of public lighting. At the beginning of the triennium, the city was greeted with a lack of lighting and a deficiency in the existing luminaires, even in the first square of the city, hence at night the little available lighting came from businesses and houses. Cuauhtémoc and Avenida Quetzalcóatl (14 lamps), ramp and stairs and front of the Álvaro Obregón school in Colonia Altamira, on the Allende ramp in Colonia Independencia (28 lamps), Blvd. Cuauhtémoc (39 lamps), on Avenida Revolución the mercurial lighting was rehabilitated thanks to the collaboration of CANACO and the merchants in the area, who donated the lights and the Government responsible for its installation.[63]​[64]​[65]​[66]​[67]​[68]​[69]​[70]​[71]​[72]​[73]​[74]​ Apparently, to correspond to the collaboration of CANACO, the Municipal Government instructed the forced affiliation of merchants to said organization by demanding that, for the revalidation of the municipal tax license, they had to enter the CANACO.[75]​.

• - Conservation and maintenance of roads. Paving. Deficiencies.[76]​[77]​[78]​[79]​ Actions.[80]​[81]​[82]​[83]​[84]​.

• - The case of the cleaning and garbage collection service. Deficiencies.[85]​[86]​[87]​[88]​[89]​[90]​ Actions.[91]​[92]​[93]​[94]​[95]​[96]​[97]​[98]​[99]​[100]​[101]​[102]​.

• - After eleven months of government, the Municipal Audit Office held a meeting with the heads of the departments to learn about the weaknesses of the areas under its charge, highlighting the following: 1) San Antonio de los Buenos Delegation: there is no income, a school and a teacher are required, the roads are impassable, there is no ambulance and there are frequent accidents on the La Gloria curve; 2) La Presa Delegation: basic services are lacking, schools, surveillance and police are required; 3) Municipal Medical Services: absolute lack of control, they do not have a facility despite the allocation of 70 thousand pesos; 4) Civic and Cultural Action: there is less than 5,000 thousand pesos in budget, the director states that "culture is not a luxury, but a necessity"; 5) Lawyer: working meeting with Police Commander and Traffic Chief is required.[103]​.

• - At the beginning of December 1963, the members of the City Council delivered a letter to the Municipal President in which they requested the dismissal of Rubén Lavín, Head of Public Works, so that he could serve to impose discipline on the Department Heads who do not obey the orders given by the Council.[104]​ As a measure of pressure, the councilors did not attend the next Council session.[105]​ The Head of Public Works would resign. the next day and replaced by the then Delegate in Tijuana of the Secretary of Public Works of the State, Juan Ojeda Robles.[106]​[107]​.

public safety

• - State of force: in the Expenditure Law of the Municipality of Tijuana, B.C., for the fiscal year of 1963,[154] a budget was authorized for one hundred and sixty-five elements of the Municipal Police, sixty-eight elements of the Traffic Department, eight elements in the public prison and twenty-two elements of the Fire Department. Those responsible for the areas were not hierarchically related and responded directly to the Municipal President, although, in practice, some members of the Cabildo came to arrogate, individually and improperly, powers of command over the commanders and elements.

• - At that time, there was a division of the Municipal Police known as Secret Service, with functions related to intelligence for the prevention of crimes, execution of operations and, in an extraordinary manner, investigation of crimes, whether commissioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office Agent of the Common Jurisdiction or, outright, by unilateral decision of the Police Commander. The officers dressed in plain clothes and used a badge with a badge (colloquially known as a "tray") when they needed to identify themselves as police officers. The authorities' preferred means of maintaining control over criminal activities was administrative arrest, which at that time could last up to fifteen days, hence the verb "fifteen." In this way, as the agents had already fully detected customary criminals, such as thieves, pickpockets, panhandlers and drug sellers, they organized raids to arrest them and they were punished with a fifteen-day arrest to prevent them from engaging in their activities, especially during festive seasons, such as national holidays or holidays.[155]​[156]​[157]​[158]​ This gave rise to abuses. by agents, and the press published stories about cases in which agents reached agreements with criminals to allow them to operate.

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Reorganization and purge of the Tijuana Municipal Police. At the beginning of the new municipal government, commanders with a military profile were appointed and efforts were made to reorganize and purge the corporation, for which there was a rotation of commanders, instructions were given to investigate and dismiss police officers against whom citizen complaints were filed and it was planned to hire more personnel, in addition to providing new uniforms, repairing damaged patrols and purchasing new units.[159]​[160]​[161]​[162]​[163]​ In June 1963, the mayor had taken advantage of the annual police review to order the members of the corporation to fulfill their assigned function; but, a few days after said harangue, accusations were presented against the Chief of the Secret Service that linked him to a gang of pickpockets and accusations against other agents, which led to the dismissal of seven agents of the Secret Service and six of the Preventive Police, in addition to requesting the resignation of the Chief of the Secret Service, and it was announced that the vacancies would be filled by graduates of the Training School of the Police.[164]​[165][166][167][168][169][170] However, it was difficult to put an end to old vices and complaints related to non-compliance with obligations and police abuse continued,[171][172][173][174][175][176][177]​ They were expressed in a Cabildo session by councilors Juan Flores Ruiz and Cruz Villavicencio, who stated that the Commander was responsible for the anarchy within the corporation, since the police were dedicated to monitoring cabarets and brothels, in addition to once again allowing the plague of beggars, cleaners and children in the tourist area of the city; The Cabildo determined to order the Commander to enforce the Police and Good Government Band and to monitor the populated areas, especially the Northern Zone.[178]​[179]​ Immediately after the meeting with the Cabildo, two incidents would occur involving Councilman Juan Flores Ruiz, the first as a result of confronting an agent who had apparently ingested alcoholic beverages, and the second when he ordered agents to apprehend a foreigner without reason. some, and then they served as their security guards in a cabaret.[180]​[181]​[182]​ In addition to the difficulties of putting order in the corporation, there was the problem of what was known as the Auxiliary Police or security guards who, without belonging to the Municipal Government, carried out public security tasks and complaints were received against them.[183]​[184]​[185]​[186]​.

The case of the properties of the family of Dolores E. Argüello.

• - Ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of March 1963[245]​ that definitively suspended the Agreement of November 7, 1929 of President Emilio Portes Gil by which he declared the complete nullity of all contracts or disposals of vacant land made in Tijuana since 1821 - the title that gave rise to the Rancho de Tijuana, in favor of Santiago Argüello, dates from 1829, and his heirs had divided the property into two parts, the North was divided for sale on July 11, 1889 and gave rise to the city of Tijuana, the South portion corresponded to Dolores Argüello - and the titles issued by presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz, and by which he stripped the family of Mrs. Dolores E. Argüello of the ownership of the properties located in the southern part of the municipality.[246]​ The presidential agreement had been issued with the objective of regularizing the invasions promoted by leaders of the National Revolutionary Party on the property of the Argüello family in the city,[247]​ and was challenged through an amparo trial promoted by Mrs. Susana Lucero, widow of Regnier in her name and on behalf of the succession of the Argüello family, who would later sell her litigated rights to the company. "Urbanizadora, Aconditionadora and Constructora del Noroeste, S.A." The resolution restored to the complainant 10,535 hectares, which now covered the urbanized area in the south of the city of Tijuana, such as La Mesa and La Presa, and would affect rural properties.[248] In the incident of execution of the sentence, District Judge Vicente Aguinaco Alemán resolved that the complainant should enter into possession of the properties already occupied in the urban area of Tijuana, which caused a serious conflict with the real estate company in charge of marketing the properties "Compaña Inmuebles Californianos, S.A.", in which José Ángel Ceniceros - former Secretary of Public Education - and the feared Colonel Carlos I. Serrano were said to have interests; The injured citizens grouped together in the Committee for the Defense of Property of the city of Tijuana, which organized protests against said company and actions before the three levels of government to defend their rights. the State Congress against the latter two. [252]​[253]​[254]​[255]​[256]​[257]​[258]​ Finally, a Collegiate Circuit Court, upon resolving an appeal for review against the resolution of the District Judge, would determine that the lands sold by the Presidency and the Ministry of Agriculture be delivered to the complainant, but not in the city of Tijuana.[259]​[260]​.

• - Tragedy during the national holidays of 1963. On the night of September 15, 1963, after the coronation of the queen of the national holidays and the Ceremony of the Cry of National Independence, held on a property near the old Mexico Bridge, between the Tijuana River and the vicinity of the international line, the structure of the mechanical game known as the "wheel of fortune" collapsed, causing the death of six people who fell. they found in it. The experts from the State Public Works Secretariat ruled that the collapse of the structure was due to the softening of the soil, a consequence of the rains that had fallen on the city the day before.[261]​.

Family

His father was Ildefonso Velázquez Hernández, originally from the Town of San Matías Transfiguración in the municipality of Zinacantepec, State of Mexico, a teacher at the Normal School and at the Scientific and Literary Institute of Toluca - currently the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. He was the nephew of the painter Pastor Pedro Velázquez Hernández - his father's brother -, a prominent watercolorist and designer of the coat of arms of the State of Mexico. His wife was Mrs. Isabel Ruiz, with whom he would have three daughters and a son, Emilio Velásquez Ruiz, who would be a prominent activist for the rights of the LGBT community and people infected with HIV, until his death, which occurred on September 29, 2006.[270][271][272]​.

The former mayor signed official documents as "Velásquez" - with "s" in the second syllable - such as the Call to create the coat of arms of the city of Tijuana, dated January 18, 1962, and the First Government Report of the IV City Council of Tijuana, dated December 1, 1963 - located in the Historical Archive of Tijuana -, in addition to registering his children Emilio and Lila Martha with the surnames Velásquez Ruiz. The local press generally addressed the mayor, with the surname "Velásquez", as was the case in the articles relating to the inauguration of the IV City Council. Likewise, his brothers used the surname "Velásquez."

Regarding the surname "Velázquez" - with "z" in the second syllable -, in the investigation official documents were located in which the surname "Velázquez" appears, instead of "Velásquez", such as the registration of the state professional license of Baja California, the minutes of the session held by the IV Constitutional Legislature of the State of October 30, 1962 and the official letter of the Mexican Academy of Law International of March 28, 1966 in which he was notified of his appointment as an academic of said institution. Furthermore, according to information from the family of his paternal uncle, Pastor Pedro Velázquez Hernández, the name and surname of the former mayor's father is Yldefonso Velázquez Hernández, who, in turn, is the son of Magdaleno Velázquez, from the municipality of Zinacantepec, Edo. Mex., with a copy of the birth certificate of the prominent Mexican painter.

Contenido

Ayuntamiento: Síndico, Lic. Conrado Acevedo Cárdenas;[5]​ regidores: Juan Flores Ruiz (dirigente del STIC- CTM),[6]​ Profa. Aída Baltazar Martínez (lídez social y miembro de la CNOP),[7]​ Lic. Ricardo Zamora Tapia (académico de la UABC y miembro de la Logia Ignacio Zaragoza núm. 3),[8]​ Ricardo Torres, Cruz Villavicencio.

El gabinete se conformó de la siguiente manera:.

Entre los principales hechos y obras destacados de su trienio, se pueden mencionar las siguientes:.

Reception of the municipal administration.

• - Political context: At that time, the Mexican political system was authoritarian, with a hegemonic party system, in which the Institutional Revolutionary Party dominated the Federal Government, the twenty-nine state governments and all municipal governments; The president of the Republic in turn had the meta-constitutional power to control the legislative and judicial powers and to appoint all the state governors and the municipal presidents of the main cities. The political control of society was carried out through the corporate system of the hegemonic party, organized into worker (CTM, CROC, CROM and others), peasant (CNC) and popular (CNOP) sectors, and the leaders of these sectors were benefited with political positions and positions in the public administrations of the three levels of government. In the particular case of Tijuana, the city's ruling political class was grouped around the Ignacio Zaragoza Lodge no. 3, founded in 1923 and belonging to the Mexican National Rite"), and to which the first three municipal presidents of Tijuana had belonged from 1953 to 1962 - Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo, Manuel Quirós Labastida and Xicoténcatl Leyva Alemán - and the municipal presidents from 1965 to 1970 - Francisco López Gutiérrez and Ernesto Pérez would belong. Rul-.[9]​[10]​[11]​[12]​ In 1963, the then lawyer Ildefonso Velásquez was benefited by the decision of President Adolfo López Mateos - also a Master Mason of the Mexican National Rite - with the designation as a candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the Municipal Presidency of Tijuana, but he was alien to the ruling political elite of the city, which would cause friction with some political groups. locals; he would try to find balance with the appointment of Silverio I. Romero (founding member of the lodge and former government delegate in Tijuana) as Municipal Treasurer - he would resign in December 1965 - and the appointment of Manuel Quirós Labastida as councilor of the Municipality. He had a productive relationship with businessmen Miguel Bujazán and Miguel Calette, also members of the lodge, who would make important contributions of resources for the execution of public works and provision of services. The Cabildo was formed according to the quota system for political groups, so that of the five councils, one would correspond to the CTM, one to the CNOP and another to the Lodge. The basis of the real political power of the Municipal President Ildefonso Velásquez would reside in his close friendship with President Adolfo López Mateos and the support of Governor Eligio Esquivel Méndez, under whose protection he would seek to carry out his projects to improve the Municipal Public Administration. - managed until then in a patrimonial manner - with a team of public officials mostly outside the traditional political class of the city, seeking to update municipal regulations, the efficiency of administrative functions and discipline in the management of resources - "that the government is a glass house" -, having as its main operators the Municipal Trustee Conrado Acevedo Cárdenas, a prominent cultural promoter, and the lawyer Manuel Corzo Blanco, as Secretary of Government after the conclusion of the President's government period. Adolfo López Mateos (November 30, 1964) and the death of Governor Eligio Esquivel Méndez (October 31, 1964), he would lose his political protectors and his ability to maneuver politically would decrease - in fact, the substitute governor Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo would favor the designation as the next Tijuana Municipal President of Francisco López Gutiérrez, another prominent member of the Ignacio Zaragoza Lodge.

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Lic. Ildefonso Velásquez and Manuel Quirós Labastida, fourth and second municipal presidents of Tijuana. Year of 1963.

The first political conflict occurred at the beginning of his mandate, when he broke with the unwritten rule of the ruling political class of Tijuana to cover up the irregularities of his predecessor in office, exhibiting the detected irregularities. The confrontation with his predecessor in the Municipal Presidency, Xicoténcatl Leyva Alemán, was a consequence of accusations related to finding the Municipal Government with a deficit of (one million five hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and fifty-three pesos), a consequence of exhausted items and deviations, which forced him to request a credit of half a million pesos - with the endorsement of the State Government - to comply with the payment of salaries and bonuses for the month of December 1962, and request authorization to the State Congress for a transfer of items for 496,553.36 pesos and an increase to the Expenditure Budget for 1,420,034.38 pesos.[13][14] The detection of dozens of people who were on the municipal payroll without effectively providing services (colloquially known as "aviators"), who were fired, was also shown in the media;[15]​ extortions of municipal officials of the previous administration towards merchants and individuals, to the detriment of the municipal treasury. In addition, a complaint was filed by the previous Municipal Trustee, Enrique Paulín Rodríguez, related to the management of the municipal treasury in the previous administration. The former municipal president Xicoténcatl Leyva claimed to have handled public funds honestly and described the accusations as lies with perversity and bad faith, political attacks based on villainy and intrigue. previous administration was the one corresponding to gasoline, which amounted to 82,699.28 pesos in favor of Comercial Santa Fe, which had to be paid gradually throughout the year 1963, however the company decided to claim payment through judicial means and the Municipal President's vehicle was seized.[21][22]​.

• - The displaced political group, in the voice of Francisco López Gutiérrez -member of the lodge and future municipal president-, would criticize the formation of the cabinet, alleging that native or resident people must be appointed for public positions, and in the incoming administration there were officials unknown to Tijuana residents, such as the Head of Public Works, the director of Civic and Cultural Action, the Civil Registry Officer and the Private Secretary.[23]​.

• - Among the negative accusations that occurred at the beginning of his three-year term, the granting of a contract to local deputy Miguel Ángel Sáenz to provide stationery to the Municipal Government stands out.[24]​.

• - Attacks on Municipal Trustee Conrado Acevedo.[25]​[26]​[27]​.

Culture and education

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Coat of arms of the city of Tijuana, adopted in 1963.

The adoption of the shield of the city of Tijuana, as a result of a contest called by the City Council. In the call of January 18, 1963, it was indicated that the shield should have the phrase "Here the country begins", said by the President of the Republic Lic. Adolfo López Mateos to refer to Tijuana.[28]​[29]​ The shield would be designed by the painter Salvador Zapata and the architect Homero Martínez de Hoyos.[30][31]​.

• - The establishment of the Civic and Cultural Action Directorate, whose first director would be Prof. Rubén Vizcaíno Valencia who, in addition, would be the president of the Tijuana Correspondent of the Mexican Culture Seminar, established in a constitutive assembly held in the Cabildo hall on May 30, 1963.[32]​[33]​ The Directorate would be in charge of organizing celebrations, mourning events and ceremonies of the civic calendar, and in conjunction with the Mexican Culture Seminar, artistic exhibitions and conferences would be organized.

• - Weekly television program, run by the Directorate of Civic and Cultural Action, broadcast on channel 12, and which served to provide information to citizens about the problems, administrative tasks, actions and achievements of the Municipal Government.

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Together with the President of Mexico, Mr. Adolfo López Mateos, at the inauguration ceremony of the monument to the free textbook (1963).

The construction of the Monument to the Free Textbook in the place occupied by the original Agua Caliente Tower.[34]​[35]​[36]​ The members of the Cabildo had to make contributions to finish funding the construction of the monument, which amounted to 180 thousand pesos.[37]​ The construction of the monument was highly criticized, not only because it involved the dismantling of the Agua Caliente Tower, then considered the symbol of the city of Tijuana,[38]​ but because the municipal government was facing serious financial problems and an expense of this nature was considered frivolous and a waste of scarce public resources, to the extent that the capital newspaper Excélsior described it as "a sample of kitsch, extremely cheap adulation to the President of the Republic."[39]​ Finally, the project was executed: the design was in charge of Architect Homero Martínez de Hoyos, its construction by the sculptor Joaquín Chiñas and the mural by the painter Joel González Navarro. The monument was inaugurated by President Adolfo López Mateos on September 26, 1963.[40]​[41]​.

• - The signing of the first labor agreement between the Tijuana City Council and the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) to protect the rights of teachers and administrative workers of the Municipal Educational System, since the State Congress had ignored the agreement entered into by the previous City Council with municipal teachers.[42][43]​.

Sports

• - The construction of the "Casa de la Juventud" Sports Unit, later called CREA.[47]​[48]​.

• - The construction of the Reforma Sports Unit, which was achieved with the joint participation of the Municipal Government and the State Government with sports associations and individuals. The State Pro Sports and Athletics Board was headed by the Secretary of the City Council, Lic. Manuel Corzo, and contributions were made by the State Football Soccer Association (Juan Reyes), Miguel Calette, MIguel Bujazán, Alfonso Bustamante, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano, the Cuauhtémoc Brewery (donation 125,000 - $10,000 - through Manager Leandro Leal Marroquín), among others.[49]​[50]​[51]​[52]​.

Public services and urban equipment

• - The expansion of the Municipal Palace offices and the renovation of the existing building, since it had been received in very deteriorated condition and in deplorable conditions.[53]​[54]​[55]​[56]​[57]​.

• - Expansion of the Civil Registry office.[58]​.

• - Expansion of public lighting. At the beginning of the triennium, the city was greeted with a lack of lighting and a deficiency in the existing luminaires, even in the first square of the city, hence at night the little available lighting came from businesses and houses. Cuauhtémoc and Avenida Quetzalcóatl (14 lamps), ramp and stairs and front of the Álvaro Obregón school in Colonia Altamira, on the Allende ramp in Colonia Independencia (28 lamps), Blvd. Cuauhtémoc (39 lamps), on Avenida Revolución the mercurial lighting was rehabilitated thanks to the collaboration of CANACO and the merchants in the area, who donated the lights and the Government responsible for its installation.[63]​[64]​[65]​[66]​[67]​[68]​[69]​[70]​[71]​[72]​[73]​[74]​ Apparently, to correspond to the collaboration of CANACO, the Municipal Government instructed the forced affiliation of merchants to said organization by demanding that, for the revalidation of the municipal tax license, they had to enter the CANACO.[75]​.

• - Conservation and maintenance of roads. Paving. Deficiencies.[76]​[77]​[78]​[79]​ Actions.[80]​[81]​[82]​[83]​[84]​.

• - The case of the cleaning and garbage collection service. Deficiencies.[85]​[86]​[87]​[88]​[89]​[90]​ Actions.[91]​[92]​[93]​[94]​[95]​[96]​[97]​[98]​[99]​[100]​[101]​[102]​.

• - After eleven months of government, the Municipal Audit Office held a meeting with the heads of the departments to learn about the weaknesses of the areas under its charge, highlighting the following: 1) San Antonio de los Buenos Delegation: there is no income, a school and a teacher are required, the roads are impassable, there is no ambulance and there are frequent accidents on the La Gloria curve; 2) La Presa Delegation: basic services are lacking, schools, surveillance and police are required; 3) Municipal Medical Services: absolute lack of control, they do not have a facility despite the allocation of 70 thousand pesos; 4) Civic and Cultural Action: there is less than 5,000 thousand pesos in budget, the director states that "culture is not a luxury, but a necessity"; 5) Lawyer: working meeting with Police Commander and Traffic Chief is required.[103]​.

• - At the beginning of December 1963, the members of the City Council delivered a letter to the Municipal President in which they requested the dismissal of Rubén Lavín, Head of Public Works, so that he could serve to impose discipline on the Department Heads who do not obey the orders given by the Council.[104]​ As a measure of pressure, the councilors did not attend the next Council session.[105]​ The Head of Public Works would resign. the next day and replaced by the then Delegate in Tijuana of the Secretary of Public Works of the State, Juan Ojeda Robles.[106]​[107]​.

public safety

• - State of force: in the Expenditure Law of the Municipality of Tijuana, B.C., for the fiscal year of 1963,[154] a budget was authorized for one hundred and sixty-five elements of the Municipal Police, sixty-eight elements of the Traffic Department, eight elements in the public prison and twenty-two elements of the Fire Department. Those responsible for the areas were not hierarchically related and responded directly to the Municipal President, although, in practice, some members of the Cabildo came to arrogate, individually and improperly, powers of command over the commanders and elements.

• - At that time, there was a division of the Municipal Police known as Secret Service, with functions related to intelligence for the prevention of crimes, execution of operations and, in an extraordinary manner, investigation of crimes, whether commissioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office Agent of the Common Jurisdiction or, outright, by unilateral decision of the Police Commander. The officers dressed in plain clothes and used a badge with a badge (colloquially known as a "tray") when they needed to identify themselves as police officers. The authorities' preferred means of maintaining control over criminal activities was administrative arrest, which at that time could last up to fifteen days, hence the verb "fifteen." In this way, as the agents had already fully detected customary criminals, such as thieves, pickpockets, panhandlers and drug sellers, they organized raids to arrest them and they were punished with a fifteen-day arrest to prevent them from engaging in their activities, especially during festive seasons, such as national holidays or holidays.[155]​[156]​[157]​[158]​ This gave rise to abuses. by agents, and the press published stories about cases in which agents reached agreements with criminals to allow them to operate.

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Reorganization and purge of the Tijuana Municipal Police. At the beginning of the new municipal government, commanders with a military profile were appointed and efforts were made to reorganize and purge the corporation, for which there was a rotation of commanders, instructions were given to investigate and dismiss police officers against whom citizen complaints were filed and it was planned to hire more personnel, in addition to providing new uniforms, repairing damaged patrols and purchasing new units.[159]​[160]​[161]​[162]​[163]​ In June 1963, the mayor had taken advantage of the annual police review to order the members of the corporation to fulfill their assigned function; but, a few days after said harangue, accusations were presented against the Chief of the Secret Service that linked him to a gang of pickpockets and accusations against other agents, which led to the dismissal of seven agents of the Secret Service and six of the Preventive Police, in addition to requesting the resignation of the Chief of the Secret Service, and it was announced that the vacancies would be filled by graduates of the Training School of the Police.[164]​[165][166][167][168][169][170] However, it was difficult to put an end to old vices and complaints related to non-compliance with obligations and police abuse continued,[171][172][173][174][175][176][177]​ They were expressed in a Cabildo session by councilors Juan Flores Ruiz and Cruz Villavicencio, who stated that the Commander was responsible for the anarchy within the corporation, since the police were dedicated to monitoring cabarets and brothels, in addition to once again allowing the plague of beggars, cleaners and children in the tourist area of the city; The Cabildo determined to order the Commander to enforce the Police and Good Government Band and to monitor the populated areas, especially the Northern Zone.[178]​[179]​ Immediately after the meeting with the Cabildo, two incidents would occur involving Councilman Juan Flores Ruiz, the first as a result of confronting an agent who had apparently ingested alcoholic beverages, and the second when he ordered agents to apprehend a foreigner without reason. some, and then they served as their security guards in a cabaret.[180]​[181]​[182]​ In addition to the difficulties of putting order in the corporation, there was the problem of what was known as the Auxiliary Police or security guards who, without belonging to the Municipal Government, carried out public security tasks and complaints were received against them.[183]​[184]​[185]​[186]​.

The case of the properties of the family of Dolores E. Argüello.

• - Ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of March 1963[245]​ that definitively suspended the Agreement of November 7, 1929 of President Emilio Portes Gil by which he declared the complete nullity of all contracts or disposals of vacant land made in Tijuana since 1821 - the title that gave rise to the Rancho de Tijuana, in favor of Santiago Argüello, dates from 1829, and his heirs had divided the property into two parts, the North was divided for sale on July 11, 1889 and gave rise to the city of Tijuana, the South portion corresponded to Dolores Argüello - and the titles issued by presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz, and by which he stripped the family of Mrs. Dolores E. Argüello of the ownership of the properties located in the southern part of the municipality.[246]​ The presidential agreement had been issued with the objective of regularizing the invasions promoted by leaders of the National Revolutionary Party on the property of the Argüello family in the city,[247]​ and was challenged through an amparo trial promoted by Mrs. Susana Lucero, widow of Regnier in her name and on behalf of the succession of the Argüello family, who would later sell her litigated rights to the company. "Urbanizadora, Aconditionadora and Constructora del Noroeste, S.A." The resolution restored to the complainant 10,535 hectares, which now covered the urbanized area in the south of the city of Tijuana, such as La Mesa and La Presa, and would affect rural properties.[248] In the incident of execution of the sentence, District Judge Vicente Aguinaco Alemán resolved that the complainant should enter into possession of the properties already occupied in the urban area of Tijuana, which caused a serious conflict with the real estate company in charge of marketing the properties "Compaña Inmuebles Californianos, S.A.", in which José Ángel Ceniceros - former Secretary of Public Education - and the feared Colonel Carlos I. Serrano were said to have interests; The injured citizens grouped together in the Committee for the Defense of Property of the city of Tijuana, which organized protests against said company and actions before the three levels of government to defend their rights. the State Congress against the latter two. [252]​[253]​[254]​[255]​[256]​[257]​[258]​ Finally, a Collegiate Circuit Court, upon resolving an appeal for review against the resolution of the District Judge, would determine that the lands sold by the Presidency and the Ministry of Agriculture be delivered to the complainant, but not in the city of Tijuana.[259]​[260]​.

• - Tragedy during the national holidays of 1963. On the night of September 15, 1963, after the coronation of the queen of the national holidays and the Ceremony of the Cry of National Independence, held on a property near the old Mexico Bridge, between the Tijuana River and the vicinity of the international line, the structure of the mechanical game known as the "wheel of fortune" collapsed, causing the death of six people who fell. they found in it. The experts from the State Public Works Secretariat ruled that the collapse of the structure was due to the softening of the soil, a consequence of the rains that had fallen on the city the day before.[261]​.

Family

His father was Ildefonso Velázquez Hernández, originally from the Town of San Matías Transfiguración in the municipality of Zinacantepec, State of Mexico, a teacher at the Normal School and at the Scientific and Literary Institute of Toluca - currently the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. He was the nephew of the painter Pastor Pedro Velázquez Hernández - his father's brother -, a prominent watercolorist and designer of the coat of arms of the State of Mexico. His wife was Mrs. Isabel Ruiz, with whom he would have three daughters and a son, Emilio Velásquez Ruiz, who would be a prominent activist for the rights of the LGBT community and people infected with HIV, until his death, which occurred on September 29, 2006.[270][271][272]​.

The former mayor signed official documents as "Velásquez" - with "s" in the second syllable - such as the Call to create the coat of arms of the city of Tijuana, dated January 18, 1962, and the First Government Report of the IV City Council of Tijuana, dated December 1, 1963 - located in the Historical Archive of Tijuana -, in addition to registering his children Emilio and Lila Martha with the surnames Velásquez Ruiz. The local press generally addressed the mayor, with the surname "Velásquez", as was the case in the articles relating to the inauguration of the IV City Council. Likewise, his brothers used the surname "Velásquez."

Regarding the surname "Velázquez" - with "z" in the second syllable -, in the investigation official documents were located in which the surname "Velázquez" appears, instead of "Velásquez", such as the registration of the state professional license of Baja California, the minutes of the session held by the IV Constitutional Legislature of the State of October 30, 1962 and the official letter of the Mexican Academy of Law International of March 28, 1966 in which he was notified of his appointment as an academic of said institution. Furthermore, according to information from the family of his paternal uncle, Pastor Pedro Velázquez Hernández, the name and surname of the former mayor's father is Yldefonso Velázquez Hernández, who, in turn, is the son of Magdaleno Velázquez, from the municipality of Zinacantepec, Edo. Mex., with a copy of the birth certificate of the prominent Mexican painter.