n called �The Sons of Tuxtla� was formed in 1911, with Captain Julio Miramontes assassinated in 1912. Troops in support of Venustiano Carranza took over in 1914, led by Agust�n Castro. In 1915, the state was reorganized into the municipality system with the city becoming the head of one of these, with No� V�zquez as first municipal president. The city remained as the state capital. Reaction against Carranza policies were headed by the �Mapaches,� a group of landholders in the state who objected to the loss of their privileges and the redistribution of their lands. They burned the state government building, destroying its archives in 1915. General Salvador Alvarado and 2500 troops fought the Mapaches commanded by General Tiburcio Fern�ndez Ruiz.
Catholic churches were closed and images of saints were burned in the city in 1934.
In 1941, the municipal government moved from the old building on El Triunfo Street in the Santo Domingo neighborhood to the corner of Avenida Central and Calle 2� Poniente on lands that belonged to the city�s first municipal president. Here a new �municipal palace� was built in Neoclassical style. However, the municipal palace was moved again to its current location in 1982, and the Neoclassical building was given to the Federaci�n de Trabajadores del Estado de Chiapas.
The Diocese of Tuxtla was created in 1965, elevated the parish of San Marcos to a cathedral.
The first Feria de Chiapas was held in 1980.
The municipality suffered 38 wildfires in 1988.
John Paul II visited the city in 1990.
During the 1990s, the state of Chiapas was racked by the EZLN or Zapatista uprising. While most of this group�s activity was in San Crist�bal and rural areas of the state, Tuxtla was also affected by it. As many as 10,000 Zapatista sympathizers protested in the city in 1998 to push federal officials to honor the 1994 San Andr�s Accords and to push for new gubernatorial elections and other demands. The
