CARRANZA AND MEXICO [Illustration: 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] [Illustration] 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