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The Mexican Cristero War continued in 1929 as clerical forces attempted an assassination of the provisional president in a train bombing in February.

The attempt failed.

Plutarco Calles, at the center of power for the anti-clerics, continued to gather power in Mexico City.

His government was considered an enemy to more conservative Mexicans who held to traditional forms of government and more religious control.

Calles founded the National Revolutionary Party early in the year to increase his power ; a party which was, ironically, seen by foreigners as fascist and which was in opposition to the Mexican Right.

A special election was held in this year, which Jose Vasconselos lost to Ortiz Rubio.

By this time, the war had ended.

The last group of rebels was defeated on June 4, and in the same month US Ambassador Dwight Morrow initiated talks between parties.

On June 21 an agreement was brokered ending the Cristero War.

On June 27, church bells rang and mass was held publicly for the first time in three years.

However, the agreement favored the government heavily, as Priests were required to register with the government and religion was banned from schools.