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Identifier: carranzamexico01forn (find matches)
Title: Carranza and Mexico
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fornaro, Carlo de, 1871-
Subjects: Carranza, Venustiano, 1859-1920
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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la*^ that only a few preliminary remarks are neces-sary to describe the personality of the famous gen-eral. The enemies of Villa made the accusationthat the rebel chief was not respectable because hehad been an outlaw under the Diaz regime. Those who have studied the Diaz rule with amind unbiased by profits and interests, will have dis-covered that if Villa was a bandit under the Diazreign, he certainly must have been an honest one;for almost without exception all the officials fromthe President down to the lowest Jefe Politico, wererobbers, cut-throats and grafters. Villa is not better nor worse than the averageMexican, but his weaknesses are those of his un-fortunate countrymen, and his strength is the latentstrength of his people. Villa, although directly responsible for the mutinyat Juarez in 19ii, when with Orozco he almost suc-ceeded in eliminating F. I. Madero, discovered thatthe three cientifico agents in El Paso were the in-stigators of the plot. Ever since then Villa re- 132
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GENERAL S. ALVARADO Second in Command under General Obregon Villa and His Campaign in the North 133 mained loyal to Madero and continued to fightagainst Huerta, in memory of Madero. All the biographers of Villa spoke of him as aNapoleon, who had created an army out of nothing.It must not be forgotten that out of one hundredand thirty thousand soldiers who fought against themilitary dictatorship, there were at least forty gen-erals who created armies out of nothing. They,too, were without money, ammunition, arms andwith even less experience than Villa. During his ten or more years as an outlaw. Villawas roaming all over the States of Chihuahua andDurango, as a leader of lesser outlaws, and his guer-rilla experience was invaluable to him later. In the case of most other Generals, like Obregon,Gonzales, Gutierrez, Natera, Herrera, Chao, Cal-les. Hill, Caballero, their experience was insignifi-cant. Most of the chiefs who fought the Federalswere either farmers, lawyers, engineers, clerks

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