Chapter I: Front Matter

CARRANZA AND MEXICO

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