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Something wrong?He led armies, governed a state, raided New Mexico to bait the U.S. into an invasion it couldn't win, and starred as himself in Hollywood - all while the revolution he helped ignite tore Mexico apart and remade it.
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General Pancho Villa, 1910.
Villa as he appeared in the United States press during the Revolution
General Pascual Orozco and Colonels Oscar Braniff, Pancho Villa and Peppino Garibaldi, photographed 10 May 1911, after taking Juárez City, during the Mexican Revolution.![Honorary Brigadier-General Pancho Villa before a Federal Army firing squad in Jiménez, Chihuahua, in 1912. His execution by General Victoriano Huerta was averted at the last moment by a telegram from President Madero.[27][28]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/General_Villa_Before_The_Firing_Squad%2C_Sentenced_To_Death.jpg/500px-General_Villa_Before_The_Firing_Squad%2C_Sentenced_To_Death.jpg)
Honorary Brigadier-General Pancho Villa before a Federal Army firing squad in Jiménez, Chihuahua, in 1912. His execution by General Victoriano Huerta was averted at the last moment by a telegram from President Madero.[27][28]
Villa with his staff in 1913. Villa is in gray suit in center. His aide, Gen. Rodolfo Fierro, is to Villa's right. To Villa's left is Gen. Toribio Ortega and far right of photo is Colonel Juan Medina. Villa and Fierro served in the Constitutionalist Army opposing Huerta.
Constitutionalist Generals Obregón (left), Villa (center) with U.S. Army General Pershing, posing after an August 1914 meeting at Fort Bliss, Texas.![Iconic image of Villa in Ojinaga, a publicity still taken by Mutual Film Corporation photographer John Davidson Wheelan in January 1914[37] [38]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Francisco_Villa.gif/1280px-Francisco_Villa.gif)
Iconic image of Villa in Ojinaga, a publicity still taken by Mutual Film Corporation photographer John Davidson Wheelan in January 1914[37] [38]In their own words 5
, Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
The country must be governed by someone who really loves his people and his land, who shares wealth and progress. I have all that, only that I am ignorant.
I, Pancho Villa, was a loyal man that destiny brought the world to fight for the good of the poor and that I will never betray nor forget my duty.
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Spouse: María Luz CorralAbout this person
Born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula in 1878, Villa became a guerrilla leader who helped topple the dictator Porfirio Díaz and install Francisco I. Madero in 1911. When a coup ousted Madero in 1913, Villa joined the Constitutionalist Army against Victoriano Huerta, then broke with Carranza after Huerta's defeat, forming an alliance with Emiliano Zapata and briefly serving as provisional governor of Chihuahua. At his peak in late 1914 the U.S. weighed recognizing him as Mexico's legitimate president, but by summer 1915 he'd been crushed by General Álvaro Obregón, his army dissolving for lack of pay and arms. Enraged by American support for Carranza, he raided Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, prompting a futile U.S. manhunt that never found him. He negotiated amnesty in 1920, retired to a landed estate, and was assassinated in 1923 - excluded from the official pantheon for decades, yet never from popular memory.
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