Decline of Villismo Chapter Summary :)

• In June 1916, Villa reappeared and called for a general rendezvous of all villista bands
• In 1916, Villa enjoys his old popularity with the people of Chihuahua
• Second half of 1916, Villa raided all up and down Chihuahua
• September 15th, 1916/ Villa conducted a major raid on Chihuahua City, aiming to free political prisioners being held in the jail there
• Villa issued a manifesto stating that in the future Americans would not be allowed to own property or pursue any type of economic life in Mexico
• In Villa's raids of the larger Mexican towns he targeted the property of Americans residing in those towns
• On November 23, 1916 Villa made his second attack on Chihuahua City. This time the attack was not just a raid but an attempt to take the entire city (also to destroy Carranza's credibility)
• Villa has lots of supplies
• Villista propaganda was no longer working
• Villa issues manifesto #2 stating that he was fighting for Chihuahua's autonomy against Carranza's despotism
• The Villista Army of 1919 was entirely made up of volunteers. Villa has stopped pressing men to join.
• Villa opted for an attack on Ciudad Juarez
• Americans HATED Villa
• In June 1919, Carranza announces his candidacy for the presidency
• Obregon issued the Plan of Agua Prieta which laid out his dreams for a new and brighter future for Mexico
• Carranza is killed
• Zapata and Carranza = struck down by assassains, and Villa and Obregon = survival :)

Twilight of Zapatismo Chapter Summary :)

• Pablo Gonzalez was the latest and most terrible of washes through Morelos
• His first goal was to destroy all traces of the Convention and to destroy Palafox's agrarian reform
• Zapatas new policy was to strategically attack places such as railways in order to get U.S. attention
• Stalemate and Zapata can again focus on agrarian reform
• 1916-1919 Mexico was a "hungry land"
• Zapata despises cities and Carranza despises the south of Mexico
• August 1915/ Carranza passed a new law, making it illegal for foreign companies to defend their interests by diplomatic means
• National Agrarian Council (started by Carranza) took a year to create and proceeded VERY slowly. Started on March 8th, 1916
• Carranza's main problems were military, both internal and external
• Diaz made his manifesto called the Plan of Tierra Colorada (Feb. 1, 1916) *page 348
• Zapata like education too
• Winter of 1918 the Spanish flu kills 40 million people worldwide
• Zapata is assassinated by Gonzalez and others. They tricked him into it, (dinner invitation)
• Zapata became a MAJOR marytr