 With close ties to the Church and the clergy, the De La Torre family was instrumental in bringing the Cristero Movement to northern Mexico.The family, originally from Zacatecas and Guanajuato, moved to Aguascalientes and then, in 1922, to San Luis Potosí.It moved again to Tampico for economic reasons and finally to Nogales (both the Mexican city and its similarly-named sister city across the border in Arizona) to escape persecution from authorities because of its involvement in the Church and the rebels.