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9.16- The Legend of Pancho Villa

Revolutions

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Chihuahuan Revolution - A Memoir of a Hero

Pancho Via entered Mexico with just a handful of followers, but he started attracting recruits. The rebels who had fought together in 1910 and 1911 had been deeply divided between those loyal to Madero's government and those like Orozco whose resentful grudges and lust for riches drove them back into revolt. As is ever the case in Mexican history, the difference between rebel and official forces is defined by whoever was the last president to get assassinated.

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