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Procurador de Justicia, habiendo comenzado su
carrera como los militares ameritados: como soldado
de filas.37
He held this position for less than a year because in July
of 1891, he was called to be the Governor of his home state
of Chiapas. Though in the capital from 1886-1891, Rabasa
was still very fond of Chiapas; many of his social activi­
ties in Mexico City were in relation with his affiliation in
the "Colonia Chiapaneca." Years later he was to reminisce
about these gatherings:
Luego haciendo memoria y tratando de localizer
fechas, lugares y personas , me dijo que alia por
los aflos de 1888 y l889 » probablemente por primera
vez se habian reunido un grupo de chiapanecos muy
distinguidos: precisamente don Angel Pola, que
fungia a manera de patriarca de la Colonia otros.
La reunion se verifico en el restaurante "La Concordia"
que estaba situado en la esquina de Isabel
la Catolica y Fco. I. Madero. Despues en los afios
que siguieron asistio a otras reuniones."
Rabasa's memory was excellent; he even had been
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named President of a commission to honor Benito Juarez.
The election to governor ended the first period of
Rabasa's life, his formative years. The almost total lack
of concrete and available documents permitted only a very
sketchy picture of his early life and activities, but did
O *7 'Nuevo procurador de justicia," El Universal
(Sept. 18, 1890), 2.
^Serra Rojas, "Prologo," xii.
"^"La colonia chiapaneca," El Universal (July 18,
1888), U.
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