Nicolás Rodríguez Carrasco
Nicolás Rodríguez Carrasco was a Mexican general and fascist.
During the Mexican Revolution, Rodríguez fought alongside Pancho Villa. He managed to become brigadier general but deserted in 1918. After the revolution, he moved to the right and joined several racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Chinese organizations. In 1929, he supported the presidential campaign of José Vasconcelos, who lost the election, claimed it had been rigged, and had to flee the country. However, Rodríguez decided to stay and instead befriended Vasconcelos's enemy Plutarco Elías Calles, a former president and the strongman of Mexico.
Under the protection of Calles Rodríguez founded the green shirts, but they were disbanded by President Abelardo L. Rodríguez in 1932. A year later, Calles Rodrígiez he founded another fascist organization, the gold shirts, which would become more successful than his previous organization. They opposed the new president, Lázaro Cárdenas, and his reforms and demanded the immediate expulsion of all Jews and Chinese. After Calles'd deportation in 1936, Rodríguez lost his protector and in August that year, he himself was arrested and deported. Rodríguez moved to Texas joined by many of his gold shirts and sought co-operation with American fascists like the silver shirts of William Dudley Pelley.
In 1938, he attempted to attack Mexico from the border at Matamoros. After the failure, he was continuously monitored by the Mexican and American secret services and could not organize anymore. He died in 1940.
