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  HISTORY OF MEXICO - USURPER: THE DARK SHADOW OF VICTORIANO HUERTA - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
Huerta was an Indian by birth and a drunkard by choice -- but he was far from being the illiterate brute of his detractors' imagination.
Huerta was born in 1845 at Colotlán, in northern Jalisco, land of the Huichol tribe from which he derived.
Huerta and Orozco reconciled and Orozco was put in command of a militia known as colorados ("Red Flaggers") which staged a savage reign of terror against Huerta's enemies in the countryside.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtvhuerta.html   (1353 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huerta was born in the town of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesús Huerta and Refugio Márquez who were of Mestizo descent.
After Díaz went into exile Huerta initially pledged allegiance to the new administration of Francisco Madero, and he was retained by the Madero administration and crushed anti-Madeo revolts by rebel generals such as Pascual Orozco.
The reaction to the Huerta usurpation was the Venustiano Carranza's Plan of Guadalupe, calling the creation of the Constitutional Army, for Huerta's ouster and the restoration of constitutional government.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Victoriano Huerta, Mexican general and usurper of the Mexican presidency, was born on March 23, 1854, in Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico, the son of a mestizo father and a Huichol Indian mother.
Huerta had succeeded in quashing the revolt by July, and returned to Mexico City with a temporary brigadier generalship in September, but in less than a month was sent to the Yucatán to help put down an uprising among the Maya Indians.
Huerta was furious at this interference in his control of the army; rumors flew that he was about to turn against Madero, and in late July the president recalled him to Mexico City for questioning.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhu81.html   (2538 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta
Huerta nació el 23 de diciembre de 1854 en Colotlán, Jalisco.
Huerta permaneció fiel al ejército durante el gobierno interino de Francisco León de la Barra pero participó en algunas acciones de provocación al ejército rebelde comandado por Emiliano Zapata, lo cual levantó sospechas de insubordinación y tan pronto Madero asumió la presidencia ordenó su dimisión de las fuerzas armadas.
Huerta se exilió en Europa y conspiró con el ejército alemán para regresar al poder.
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 Huerta, Victoriano - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Huerta, Victoriano, 1854-1916, Mexican general and president (1913-14).
Huerta established a military dictatorship, notable for political corruption and rule by imprisonment and assassination.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was openly hostile to Huerta, and unpleasant international incidents occurred at Tampico and Veracruz.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-huerta-v1.html   (358 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Victoriano Huerta (1854-1916) was a Mexican general and political leader who, in 1913, overthrew the first government to emerge from the Mexican Revolution and became the executive of a counterrevolutionary regime.
Victoriano Huerta was born of Huichol Indian parents in Colotlán, Jalisco, on Dec. 23, 1854.
Huerta assumed the provisional presidency and, on the night of Feb. 22, 1913, while being transferred from the National Palace to prison, Madero and Pino Suárez were assassinated by their escort.
www.bookrags.com /biography/victoriano-huerta   (636 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta. History. Mexico for kids.
The federal army that defended the government of Huerta was defeated definitively in Zacatecas on June 24, 1914.
Huerta resigned on July 15 and left the country.
Huerta in Europe had started relations with agents of the German government who offered him arms and economic support, in the United States he was in close contact with the naval and military attachés of the Germany embassy in Washington.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/history/html/rev/biohuerta.html   (478 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta — FactMonster.com
Huerta established a military dictatorship, notable for political corruption and rule by imprisonment and assassination.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was openly hostile to Huerta, and unpleasant international incidents occurred at Tampico and Veracruz.
Steady insurgent military pressure forced Huerta to resign in July, 1914.
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 First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Tampico Incident
He demanded that the Mexican government, under the dictator General Victoriano Huerta since his coup in February 1913, promise to punish the officials involved in the arrest of the seaman, and that the U.S. flag be given a formal 21-gun salute on Mexican land within 24 hours.
Huerta in turn regarded Wilson disdainfully as the "puritan of the north".
Huerta's departure from the Mexican capital was not however the end of the matter.
www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/tampico.htm   (403 words)

  
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Huerta was born in the town of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesus Huerta and Refugio Marquez who were of Huichol descent.
In 1910, when Díaz went into exile, Huerta initially pledged allegiance to the new administration of Francisco Madero and he was allowed to remain in the Mexican army.
Huerta was an alcoholic and while in captivity he drank himself to death, dying in early 1916 in El Paso, Texas.
www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org /timeline/ImageDisplay.asp?ID=46   (690 words)

  
 Amphibious Warfare: First World War
In 1914, a group led by General Victoriano Huerta had seized power by murdering Mexico's first revolutionary president, Francisco Madero.
Enraged by Huerta's bloody coup, the general's removal became a central tenet of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson's hemispheric policy.
Moreover, U.S. intelligence indicated that a German steamer loaded with weapons and ammunition for General Huerta's forces was on its way to the latter port.
www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopC4.htm   (1627 words)

  
 The California Naval Militia and the Tampico Incident
Sixteen Nations quickly recognized Huerta as President but Wilson was obstinate and was oblivious to the fact that Mexico supplied one quarter of the world's oil needs and that world's Navy's were completing the conversion of their fleets from coal to oil.
Huerta was in exile in Barcelona and the Germans offered to back a military coup that would restore power to Huerta and bring a peace of sorts to the anarchy of feuding private armies of Generals Villa, Zapata, Obregon, Diaz and Orozco.
Huerta arrived in New York on April 13 and $800,000 was deposited to Huerta's account in the Deutsche Bank in Havana, Cuba and an additional $95,000 in a Mexican account.
www.militarymuseum.org /tampico.html   (1996 words)

  
 Victoriano Huerta Summary
Huerta was born in the town of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesús Huerta and Refugio Márquez who were of Mestizo descent.
After Díaz went into exile Huerta initially pledged allegiance to the new administration of Francisco Madero, and he was retained by the Madero administration.
Victoriano Huerta bowed to pressure and resigned the Presidency on July 14, 1914.
www.bookrags.com /Victoriano_Huerta   (1144 words)

  
  The Mexican Revolution
Huerta abandoned the Madero government and reached an agreement with Díaz, in the office Henry Lane Wilson.
Huerta had the obedience of Mexico's federal army, but Huerta was foolish in believing that the strength of his army would be enough to control Mexico as a dictator.
Huerta sent a message to all state governors demanding their allegiance.
www.fsmitha.com /h2/ch03mex.htm   (3649 words)

  
 VICTORIANO HUERTA 1854-1916 - HISTORY OF MEXICO ON MEXICO CONNECT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Huerta was allowed to remain in the army when Madero became president.
Although not a candidate, Huerta was elected president in October of 1913 and immediately began having problems with the economy and Constitutionalist opposition.
In June 1915, Huerta tried to return to Mexico through the U.S. Was arrested with Pascual Orozco and detained at Ft. Bliss.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/vhuerta1.html   (132 words)

  
 The Twenty-One Gun Salute
HUERTA Have this message sent to all embassies: 'I have the honor to inform you that I have overthrown the government.' (beat) 'From now on there will be peace and prosperity.' (beat, then) I will drop you off at the palace.
Huerta seems to be holding his own, but the rebels are picking up steam.
HUERTA A Mexican and a Frenchman are standing on the corner.
www.hobrad.com /twenty.htm   (4448 words)

  
 Cuartelazo [Revolt of the Military]
Victoriano Huerta has seized control of the government from Madero, who is arrested and later murdered.
Domínguez and some of the other representatives protest against Huerta's dictatorship: freedom of the press is suspended, those who oppose the new administration are arrested or murdered, revolts are breaking out across Mexico, and foreign powers--especially the United States--are threatening to intervene and "stabilize" Mexico.
The picture concludes with Huerta's abdication and the aftermath of an unsuccessful "summit" meeting between Carranza and other rebel leaders--the viewer is expected to know this presages at least six more years of warfare between various factions.
www.wam.umd.edu /~dwilt/cuartel.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Bitácora de Aquiles ::: El regreso de Victoriano Huerta
Victoriano Huerta era un general del ejército porfirista altamente respetado, un hombre del antiguo régimen en toda la extensión.
Huerta no pudo cumplir su deseo de instaurar un porfiriato sin Porfirio, pero al final del día acabó teniendo una muerte tranquila viviendo en el exilio en Texas.
Hoy México sería otro si Huerta hubiese sido derrotado en la ciudadela, si algún error gravísimo hubiera motivado su despido del gobierno de Madero, o si un balazo le hubiese atravezado el cráneo en un "accidente" de caza en 1912.
diario.de /aquiles/el-regreso-de-victoriano-huerta.html   (668 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Huerta, Victoriano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Huerta, Victoriano HUERTA, VICTORIANO [Huerta, Victoriano], 1854-1916, Mexican general and president (1913-14).
In 1913 he left schoolteaching to fight with Álvaro Obregón and Venustiano Carranza against Victoriano Huerta.
In 1913, Obregón joined Venustiano Carranza in the overthrow of Victoriano Huerta and later was commander against
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06115.html   (644 words)

  
 PANCHO VILLA PICTURES FROM OJINAGA.COM
Huerta betrayed Madero and joined forces with Diaz in a military coup and Huerta was installed in power.
Victoriano Huerta was a full blooded Huichol Indian who had been a loyal supporter of Porfirio Diaz, and he was brilliant military officer but a raging alcoholic.
After Madero took power, he sent Huerta to the state of Morelos where he led a fire and steel campaign of attrition against the population there, massacring whole communities for their support of the rebel cause of Emiliano Zapata.
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 Adolfo de la Huerta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolfo de la Huerta (26 May 1881 – 9 July 1955) was a Mexican politician and interim President of Mexico from June 1 to December 1, 1920.
One of the most important events that happened during de la Huerta's presidency was the surrender of the Francisco Villa and his army.
De la Huerta should not be confused with Victoriano Huerta, "The Jackal", who was President of Mexico in 1913 to 1914.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolfo_de_la_Huerta   (185 words)

  
 Index Ho-Hy
Huerta then went into exile in the United States, residing in Los Angeles as a singing teacher.
When he was still a boy, a column of soldiers entered Colotlán and the general in charge asked for a person able to write a military report from dictation.
Huerta presented himself and executed the work to the entire satisfaction of the officer, who took him to Mexico City and presented him to Pres.
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 The Bengal Club: Wild West Campaign News
While General Huerta's headquarters in the field refuses to comment on the arrest of Villa, sources on the Division del Norte staff report long simmering discord between the two powerful egos apparently came to a head in June when Huerta accused Villa of stealing a horse earmarked for another senior officer.
There is speculation Huerta may prefer to keep Villa exactly where he is, in limbo, for the foreseeable future, rather than risk unfortunate public disclosure of the specifics of the case at court-martial.
Huerta and the regular army are in control and show little respect for the authority of the governor.
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 Victoriano Huerta - Wikipedia en español   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
El General Victoriano Huerta fue un militar golpista que ocupó la presidencia de México a principios del
Huerta se ofreció como voluntario y como premio a sus servicios se le permitió estudiar en el
Porfirio Díaz Huerta fue el encargado de escoltar el convoy presidencial al Puerto de Veracruz.
www.brujula.net /wiki/Victoriano_Huerta   (707 words)

  
 Woodrow Wilson House President Woodrow Wilson Museum Washington DC
Huerta had taken power in coup against an elected government in February 1913, just weeks before Wilson took office.
Considering Huerta’s regime one of “butchers” Wilson had opposed Huerta.
Unfortunately, after Huerta fled Mexico, the Mexican revolutionaries fell into a civil war called “the War of the Winners.” Unrest and violence continued in Mexico throughout the rest of Wilson’s administration.
www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org /index.asp?section=timeline&file=timelinesearch_day&id=1213   (231 words)

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