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Updated: July 3, 2025
The news spread like lightning. Villa the magic word! The Great Man, the salient profile, the unconquerable warrior who, even at a distance, exerts the fascination of a reptile, a boa constrictor. "Our Mexican Napoleon!" exclaimed Luis Cervantes. "Yes! The Aztec Eagle! He buried his beak of steel in the head of Huerta the serpent!"
His body still showed faint signs of bites that he had received in childhood, when he used to go through the huerta throwing stones at the dogs. Old Caldera spoke to him from bed, without displaying any emotion. On the following day he was to go to the veterinary and have his flesh cauterized by a burning iron. So he ordered, and there was nothing further to be said about the matter.
It might be well right here to state briefly the history of the previous few months in Mexico, so that all may understand how it happened that none of the four boys had a very high opinion of Gen. Huerta, at that time dictator of Mexico. For nearly 35 years, up to 1911, Mexico had a peaceful existence under a republican form of government.
More serious yet was an attempt of the naval attaché, Boy-Ed, to involve the United States and Mexico in a dispute by a plot to bring back Huerta. This unhappy Mexican leader was arrested on the Mexican border in June, 1915, and shortly afterwards died. For some months the existence of such activities on the part of German agents had been suspected by the public. A series of disclosures followed.
Hike back as fast as God will let you. Sweeten this Raoul Bena. He'll see through your play, or he's no Mexican. Sweeten him and tell him you'll make him a general -a second Villa." "Lord, Lord, yes, but how?" Jeremy Braxton demanded. "By putting him at the head of an army of five thousand. Lay off the men. Make him make them volunteer. We're safe, because Huerta is doomed.
But the new President, having mapped out the course he was to follow, a course fraught with a great deal of danger to his administration, seeking to bring about the moral isolation of Huerta himself, calmly moved on, apparently unmindful of the jeers and ridicule of his critics in America and elsewhere.
No sooner did night fall than the huerta was left without a light, without a person upon the roads, as if death had taken possession of the dismal plain, so green and smiling under the sun. A single red spot, a tear of light, trembled in this obscurity.
Blanco went to join Gen. Carranza he armed all his men and it took about everything we had. However, there are a few weapons left unless," she added as an afterthought, "the Huerta soldiers have discovered their hiding place." She led the way to the cellar and pointed to a spot at one side. "If you will brush away the dirt that covers the floor about there," she said, "you will find a large slab.
Thus it happened that Huerta, who was nearly blind then, escaped being drawn into the sudden military movements that grew out of General Felix Diaz's unexpected revolt and temporary capture of the port of Vera Cruz last October. General Huerta's part in Felix Diaz's second revolution, four months later, is almost too recent to have been forgotten.
This view prevailed to a considerable extent in Mexico south of San Luis Potosi. These fights were no mere bloodless affairs, but stubbornly contested, with heavy casualties, as a decided principle was involved in the conflict. Villa, the old bandit and personal enemy of Huerta, organized a force in Sonora, and Urbina did likewise in northern Durango.
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