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Mexico detains American sailors
On this day in 1913, federal forces in Mexico temporarily detained a group
of American sailors in Tampico. Tensions were high in the port city
because it had been under attack by rebels seeking to overthrow the
government of Victoriano Huerta, and because U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
had refused to recognize Huerta as the legitimate leader of Mexico. The
commander of the American naval forces at Tampico demanded a formal
apology from the government, which Huerta refused to issue. When the U.S.
invaded Veracruz on April 21, rebel leader Venustiano Carranza accused
Huerta of having provoked the invasion and the rebels stepped up their
campaign against the government. The embattled Huerta resigned in July
1914, though he continued to entertain hopes of a comeback. In June 1915
he and Pascual Orozco Jr. were arrested in New Mexico and charged with
conspiring to violate U.S. neutrality laws. Huerta died in El Paso in
January 1916 of cirrhosis of the liver. Mexican and Tejano resentment of
yanqui high-handedness continued, and doubtless contributed to support of
the Plan of San Diego and the raids carried out on U.S. soil by Luis De la
Rosa and Francisco (Pancho) Villa. Those living on both sides of the Rio
Grande continued to feel the effects of the Mexican Revolution until 1920.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MEXICAN REVOLUTION
- HUERTA, VICTORIANO
- OROZCO, PASCUAL, JR.
- PLAN OF SAN DIEGO
- VILLA, FRANCISCO [PANCHO]
- DE LA ROSA, LUIS
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