10 Am I Not Your Mother? By the mid-1930s, Mexico was already quite worn out by the persecutions. An attempt was made to bring about a climate of peace. It would not be easy, since in some states in the Republic the situation continued to be violent. On the other hand, some members of the government no longer supported the aggressive methods in use since the mid-1920s. Reparation and a new direction for the state’s policy were urgently needed. On February 10, 1937, a notice of general amnesty was published in the most widely distributed newspapers in the country, which President Lázaro Cárdenas granted using the extraordinary power conferred to him by the Congress of the Union, to help achieve peace in the nation. Under this amnesty, the political crimes of the past were to be forgotten, and, in this way, all Mexicans would be reincorporated into the common project of the nation. In the United States of America, many Catholics, among them the Knights of Columbus, tried to help their brothers in the Catholic Church in Mexico and protected the lives of many priests, nuns, and religious, as well as bishops, giving them asylum. From San Antonio, Texas, where he had gone into exile, the apostolic delegate, Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres, clearly saw that concrete steps were being taken to achieve peace in Mexico. He declared that he
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