S. businessmen in a train robbery in northern Mexico (Hampson, 2011)
Hurst doesn't explain whether he believes everything about Villa's approach to women, but he clearly suspects that some of the stories must have at least a nugget of truth. For example, it has been written that Villa often claimed "violence must never be done to women" (Hurst, 2008, p
Katz explains that the white legend is reflected in the memoirs that Villa put together. The "black legend" portrays Villa as an "evil murderer, with no redeeming qualities" and the "epic legend" is based largely on "popular ballads and traditions that seem to have emerged mainly in the course of the revolution" (Katz, 2)
Who order the assassination of Pancho Villa? Andrae Marak's research shows evidence that President Alvaro Obregon (1920-1924) and the president-elect of Mexico at that time, Elias Calies (1924-1928) arranged the killing. Even though Villa was supposed to be retired, he was apparently involved in "Mexican political affairs immediately prior to the 1924 elections" and was stirring up trouble vis-a-vis the distribution of wealth and land in Chihuahua (Marak, 2000, p
During this period in his life, Porfirio Diaz was the president of Mexico, who was not at all concerned about the horrific living conditions many Mexican citizens were subjected to. In fact Porfirio "favored the owners of the large farming estates, or haciendas" and hence the ordinary folks in Mexico were drifting deeper into poverty, they had no say-so in their government, and the rich haciendas were simply taking land away from poor people (Outlaws, Mobsters & Crooks)
Eventually, Villa escaped and fled to Texas (El Paso). According to the account in Alejandro Quintana's book, Pancho Villa: A Biography, Huerta had the support of the Roman Catholic Church, the upper class of Mexico and the United States ambassador (Quintana, 2012, p