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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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, can pursue step by stepall his official acts and his reconstructive policy. Don F. Iglesias Calderon, after escaping from thefortress of San Juan de UUoa, told the writer thathe crossed the border at Juarez for Chihuahua,Torreon, Saltillo, Monterey, and back to the bor-der, and very much to his surprise he travelled onschedule time. At that time the whole north wasin the hands of the Constitutionalists. The foreign press could not understand why Car-ranza did not hasten at once to Mexico City afterthe flight of Huerta. Carranza could not leave asingle State between Mexico City and the borderunorganized, that is to say, without placing Consti-tutionalist officials in charge. Otherwise the Huertaofficials would later have created local strife. Thefirst Chief had to put new wine in new bottles,in order to succeed in any future reform whichmight be enacted by Congress. With Carranza it was not only a question ofconquest. His idea was to rebuild, reconstructMexico, not merely conquer it.
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DON RAFAEL 2UBARAN CAPMANY Minister of Foreign Affairs with Carran2;a, also Representativeof Carranz,a in Washington CHAPTER VIII DIPLOMATIC WORK IN WASHINGTON T7R0M the inception of the Constitutionalist revo--*■ lution, Carranza appreciated the necessity ofhaving a representative in Washington. AlbertoPani and Roberto V. Pesqueira organized a juntawhich would counteract the campaign waged againstthe Constitutionalists by the Huerta agents in con-junction with the American interests, in the vainhope of a recognition of the Huerta regime by theDemocratic administration. Pesqueira paid the ex-penses of the office out of his own pocket until Car-ranza was able to devote some of the money at thedisposal of the revolution, to other purposes besidesthe buying of arms and ammunition. The intelligent and effective work done by thetwo constitutionalist ambassadors concentrated theattention of the American public upon a strugglewhich had appeared one-sided and hopeless. After a succession of

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