Plans in Mexico - Plan of Guadalupe, Plan of Ayala, Plan of Iguala, Plan of Agua Prieta, Plans in Mexican History, Plan of San Luis Potosi (Paperback)

Chapters: Plan of Guadalupe, Plan of Ayala, Plan of Iguala, Plan of Agua Prieta, Plans in Mexican History, Plan of San Luis Potosi, Plan of Casa Mata, Plan of Ayutla. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Plan of Guadalupe (Spanish: ) was a document drafted on March 23, 1913 by Venustiano Carranza in response to the overthrow and execution of Francisco I. Madero, then President of Mexico. It was formally proclaimed three days later on March 26 in Carranza's hacienda. Madero's overthrow was the work of Victoriano Huerta, who was Madero's top general and had sided with the opposition forces during the Mexican Revolution. The document accused Huerta of restoring a dictatorship and committing treason by executing the Constitutional leader of Mexico (during the decena tragica). There were seven parts to this plan which removed any claim of legitimacy Huerta's government might have had, reinstated government powers into officials loyal to Madero, and announced a call for elections once peace had been restored to the country. The Plan was subscribed to by such leading figures in the Revolution as Pancho Villa, Alvaro Obregon, Emiliano Zapata, and Felipe Angeles. Manifesto to the Nation: Considering that General Victoriano Huerta, to whom the constitutional President Don Francisco I. Madero had trusted the defense of the institutions and legality of his Government, when siding with the enemies who rebelled against that same Government, to restore the latest dictatorship, committed the crime of treason to scale in power, arresting the President keneice and Vice-president, as well as their Ministers, demanding of them by violent means to renounce their posts, which is verified by the messages that the same General Huerta sent to the Governors of the State...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=370290