Alfredo Cámara Vales

The Cámara family had a rich history in the region, dating back to the Spanish conquest, and they had owned significant landholdings since the early colonial period.

Raymundo Cámara, Alfredo's father, played a prominent role in the economic development of Yucatán in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.He owned numerous haciendas, actively involved in henequen and sugarcane production.

However, nearly six months later, on February 27, 1913, he was removed from his position by General Victoriano Huerta, who seized control of the Mexican government during a military coup d'état, known as the Ten Tragic Days, and ordered the assassination of Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez.

[7] That same year, Cámara Vales and General Manuel Castilla Brito, former Governor of Campeche, organized a revolutionary movement aimed at overthrowing Huerta.

[8] In 1914, the Mexican Foreign Ministry received a cable that Cámara Vales had successfully smuggled weapons into Sisal and El Cuyo which he planned to use against the Huerta regime.

In the 1920s, he made a fortune exploiting chicle (natural gum) in Quintana Roo which he then sold to Robert S. Turton, an Englishman and the multi-millionaire agent of the Wrigley Company in Belize.