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==='''[[File:RedShirts.png]] Red Shirts and Tomás Garrido Canabal'''===

Red Shirts (or in Spanish Camisas Rojas) was an extremist left-wing and anti-religious group founded in 1931 by Tomás Garrido Canabal, in his tenure as governor, the name is because members wear red shirts. The group aimed to follow the orders of Canabal, which was mainly anti-clerical as articles of 1917, in which it destroyed several church buildings.

The group's ideals consisted of attacking things that "hindered progress" like religion and alcohol, as well as having a bias towards Marxism and Leninism (with an extra focus on Leninism), in which their anthem was the ''internationale'' and many were based on the Bolsheviks and were even accused of being "fascists" and ''"indoctrination shock troops for the intense campaign against God and religion"''. The group disbanded in 1935 after Canabal ordered them to kill Catholics and Cardenas arrested 62 members.

*[[File:RedShirts.png]] '''Tomás Garrido Canabal -''' Tomás Garrido Canabal was an anti-religious military politician and governor of Yucatan and Tabasco in Mexico and his ideology was Garridismo. Even before taking a role in politics, he was expelled for demonstrating against Porfirio Diaz in his first year of high school.

He became known for his administration as governor of Tabasco (1920-1935), in which he promoted some social advances such as women's suffrage and public education, but was accused of authoritarianism and brutality, especially for his anti-religion campaign, having as focus on Christianity, in which he founded Camisas Rojas to persecute and destroy churches in Tabasco. He justified his religious persecution by saying it was a way of "seeking the freedom of the people", he had banned masses and religious images were burned in public, in addition to having encouraged satirical plays mocking Christianity. Another important aspect was socialism, in which he founded several socialist organizations, the best known being Camisas Rojas and he was very fond of Lenin. He also banned alcoholic beverages (except beer) and executed criminals without trial, causing crime in Tabasco to decline.

Described as socialist tyranny by Martin C. Needler, in 1934 he had Catholic youths shot in Coyoacán Square, generating indignation among the population. He left in 1935, after the arrival of Lázaro Cárdenas, went into exile in Costa Rica, dying in California in 1943.