The 4th June, 1910, Valladolid wrote, in blood, an important chapter in the History of Mexico.

Some six months after of the unsuccessful uprising in Merida, Maximiliano R. Bonilla was released from prison and returned to Valladolid. He immediately contacted Michael Ruz Ponce a good friend and book keeper in the store of Marcial Vidal, the same that had presided in the eastern capital the Independent Electoral Center.

In April of 1910, Bonilla, who had been in the penitentiary with many executives of the C.E.I., This group had total confidence in him and he was now convinced that another shot at rebellion would bring a victory. Knowing the ideals of this friend Ruz Ponce, he communicated his new plan for revolution and resistance and both started planning and communicating to set the rebellion in motion. The new plan was written and made into a formal document.

This document, was issued the 10th of May, 1910 and according to historian Oswaldo Baqueiro Anduze, was witnessed by a lawyer named Crescencio Jiménez Borregui. Known historically as the plan of  'Dzelkoop' it was written in the nearby town of Yalcobá, and it and had to be "made known in different points of the State, the same day fixed for the yell".

It is certain that the objectives of this movement or uprising were clearly spelled out not like those of the previous year. In this case they wanted the fall of Valladolid first and to that they planned to add the support of many other Maya factions. It does not seem very venturesome to suppose that the revolt of Valladolid, in case they triumphed, probably would have raised the level of combat to other areas, however, the very limited plan and only aspiration was the fall of the governing Muñoz Arístegui.

On the other hand the plan of Dzelkoop, with all its limitations, clearly demonstrates that the insurrection Vallisoletana did not lack precedents, preparations, organization and very specific political goals. It also demonstrates that the plan was not limited to an isolated area or local event. There are those, however, who have minimized the importance of these events of the 4th of June, and called it a spontaneous outbreak or a riot. Calling it this way gives no meaning to the actual motivations shared by the uprisers and it must be recognized that the attitude and hardness of the political chief, withdrawn Captain Luis Felipe de Regil, contributed and not in small measure to aggravate the situation.

The violent impulses and despotic treatment combined with his inclination to arbitrary abuses made Regil many enemies in a very short time: Albertos, who was responsible for the rape of his  niece, Donato Bates, resented the constant hobbles that were put on him in his own establishment, Michael Ruz Ponce on numerous occasions was made the object of contempt and humiliation, Claudio Alcocer, was expelled from the city one day as he went to visit his elderly mother as she lay dying. All of them participated in the rebellion. However, their cases were not exceptional.

The public unrest provoked by Regil ran very wide and deep.

Now then: these circumstances were only a few of the atrocities, the sum of which served to aggravate an already tense situation. Because the political funds of the city were limited to the municipality of Valladolid and no one would admit that they, the politicians were the originators of the growing dissent in many sectors and places in the Yucatan. Merida in the first place and the same feelings had been accumulated from time back.

On the night of the 3rd of June of 1910 all those committed started to unite in the plaza of the

Holy Lucia around midnight. The first actions ran with good fortune: a group under the command of Ruz Ponce and José E. Kantún, overpowered the police quarter killing the sentry Liborio Albornoz. They took everyone prisoner. For their part Claudio Alcocer and Atilano Albertos went to the National Guard, in front of the detachment. The Sergeant of the Guard, Facundo Gil, was killed in the attempt and the rebels took control.

The political chief, Felipe de Regil, who was resting in his house, heard the shots and went into the street, armed with two pistols. He was a hard man and without a doubt very brave. He exchanged shots with the attackers and was killed and left lying in the street.

The revolt of Valladolid was off and running and with those deaths, especially that of the political chief, came an irreversible fact: they could not turn back. When the city awakened on the 4th of June, the city was in hands of the rebels. The only thing left to do was wait and see what happened.

In his interesting book " Valladolid. Its life of yesterday and today" Fulgencio Alcocer Pérez provides the facts that nearly all the population Vallisoletana was prepared to join in the struggle, to the degree that in less than three days the forces estimate approximately 1,500 or  2,000 men, almost none of which had military training.

The author also says that numerous persons, several merchants and landowners, lent to the movement "the greatest possible aid with firearms, machetes, ammunitions, gunpowder, clothes, corn and money", mentioning Marcial Vidal Sosa, José Sosa Vidal, Demetrio Rivero, Pedro Alcocer, Graciano Sánchez, Florentino Echazarreta, Amado Escalante, Bernardino Cantón, Andrés and Alonso Villanueva, Luis Sosa Sabido, Ramón Mendoza, Raymundo Alcocer and Gabriel Moisés. While nothing could subtract from the importance of such solidary actions, it must be stated that the available reserves in Valladolid probably would not be sufficient to maintain a large group of reserves or last for a long campaign.

Of course, in Merida and in all the State the knowledge of the events already described produced a great alarm: alarm and indignation in some; of enthusiasm and of hope, in other; and surprise, in many.

Maybe if the revolutionaries of Valladolid had not been lured into resisting within the city or had better resources with which to push the war into other parts of the Yucatan, their luck would have been very different. But more probable is that they did not have the coordination necessary so that the movement could turn into a full scale uprising. What is certain is that, being entrenched the in their city, the rebels were forced to fight resolutely against the forces that the government sent to smash the rebellion and they had to do this from the places that the rebellion started. It is sure that certainly many of them had hardly begun the struggle when it was really all over.

Valladolid once again in her history was the site of a bloody battle and the history of Valladolid again adds a page to the general history of the Yucatan and Mexico.

The commander of the National Guard, Colonel Ignacio A. Lara, departed for Valladolid in front of 65 soldiers, with 300 rifles and sufficient ammunition to arm the men they would recruit along the way. This was a form of levy against the peasants of Kini, Cansahcab, Muxupip, Baca, Dzemul, Motul, Temax, etc.

The government did not rely heavily on these forces, formed through force, so they decided not to assault the city until receiving federal reinforcements, they had been requested with urgency. Meanwhile and his troops were quartered in Tinum, some twelve kilometers from Valladolid.

The rebellion exploded on the 4th. On the 7th arrived the cannons of Morelos, on the tenth the federal battalion with six hundred men under the command of the Colonel Luke. On the 8th Lara's forces arrived from Tinum and at first light on the 9th they attacked the rebels holding Valladolid.

They were 3 ferocious onslaughts by the federal and state troops who were fighting the rebels.  Badly armed and out of ammunition the rebels finally fell under the weight of the Federal onslaught. Many were made prisoners. Others tried to escape. This however, does not diminish from the fact that the rebels fought bravely and nearly all of the commentaries on the subject agree that "During the struggle the Revolutionaries showed very high degrees of valor".

The troops of Luke were not used in the persecution of the rebels, and many managed to escape from the city. Valladolid had fallen and many of the soldiers were devoted to the plunder, and permitted the flight of more than a few of the rebels.

The balance of the battle, however, was painful for both sides; on the part of the revolutionaries, more than a hundred died; the federal attackers suffered thirty dead and sixty injured. Baqueiro Anduze Subraya states that "The tragic balance of this extended battle was the highest of all the battles of this type before the 20th of November, 1910 in the Republic".

A few days later General Ignacio A. Bravo arrived in Valladolid, with his battalion, the General  was a soldier of terrible character, that in 1901 occupied Chan Santa Cruz, which today is Filepe Carrillo Puerto, in Quintana Roo,  - - then capital of the last Maya forces of the War called Castes - -, and upon learning that many of the rebels were allowed to escape he was very critical of Luke to the hardest extreme.

He captured some of the principal ringleaders, Maximiliano R. Bonilla, Atilano Albertos, José Kantún and two of the Osorios, they were subject to military judgment. The judgments dictated the 14th of June were: death for Bonilla, Albertos and Kantún; jail for Tomás Cetina, Feliciano Cervera, Valerio Sánchez, Bonifacio Esquivel and others.

On the following day, in the courtyard of the abandoned shrine of San Roque, the executions were performed. With serenity and bravery Bonilla, Kantún and Albertos faced the firing squad.

Claudio Alcocer and Michael Ruz Ponce had escaped. In the last moments of the combat, the courageous Alcocer found his companion Ruz Ponce, carrying him toward the mountains of Quintana Roo where both would find refuge. 

The two friends were received by the Indians of the zone, as enemies of the government, and there they would live under the protection of the Maya, but under the authority of the Maya chiefs and with the understanding that they had to remain. Yet, Ruz Ponce - - sure of the collapse of the Porfiriato - -,  fled day from the Maya village. And in reprisal Claudio Alcocer was executed. Thus died one of the noblest and bravest men in the history of this prodigal land, in courage and nobility, that of the ancient Zací and after that of Valladolid, both gained titles in the history of the heroism.

The relief felt upon stopping the insurrection of Valladolid made the regime feel in control, but already cracked the pot of tension was not to rest and the peace would not endure. Even after so bloody a sacrifice, the following year there were new uprisings. The 3rd of March of 1911 the peasants of Peto rebelled; on the 4th Temax rebelled with those of Sotuta.

On the 4th of June of 1910,Valladolid, wrote a chapter in the history of Mexico, in blood. The uprising of the Maya against the Mexican Guard has now been recorded in history as "The First  spark of the Mexican Revolution".