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DON VENUSTIANO CARRANZA
AND GENERAL I. L. PESQUEIRA
First Chief and Minister of War
CARRANZA AND MEXICO
BY CARLO DE FORNARO
[WITH CHAPTERS BY COLONEL I. C. ENRIQUEZ, CHARLES FERGUSON AND M. C. ROLLAND]
NEW YORK · MITCHELL KENNERLEY · 1915
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY
PRINTED IN AMERICA
TO
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
who discovered
real Mexico to the Americans
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I The Life of Don Venustiano Carranza 9
II Conditions in Mexico During Diaz’ Régime 34
III The Madero Revolution, Its Aims and Failures 50
IV Plotting Which Overthrew Madero 60
V Huerta in Power. The Landing of American Marines in Vera Cruz 77
VI Financial Organization of the Revolution 86
VII Civil Organization of the Revolution 96
VIII Diplomatic Work in Washington 99
IX The Constitutionalists in Paris 102
X Investigation Work in the United States. By M. C. Rolland 106
XI General Outline of Campaign Against Huerta 114
XII Campaign of General Obregon in the West. By Col. I. C. Enriquez 118
XIII Villa and His Campaign in the North 132
XIV Campaign of Gen. Gonzalez in the East 142
XV Zapata and His Campaign in the South 146
XVI One Hundred Years’ Struggle for Land and Democracy against Clericalism 157
XVII Attempts at the Solution of the Land Question 166
XVIII Behind the Scenes of the Carranza-Villa Imbroglio 176
XIX The Need of a Democratic Finance in Mexico. By C. Ferguson 184
XX The Foreign Policy of Carranza 192
XXI President Wilson’s Mexican Policy 205
Reflections 214
Appendix 219
ILLUSTRATIONS
Don Venustiano Carranza and General I. L. Pesqueira Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Don Rafael Zubáran Capmany 99
Modesto C. Rolland 106
War Map of Mexico 114
General Alvaro Obregon 118
General S. Alvarado 132
General Pablo Gonzalez 142
General Benjamin Hill 176