Venustiano Carranza Garza (* December 29th 1859, Cuatro Ciénegas - † May 21st 1920, Tlaxcalatongo (State de Puebla) was President of Mexico of 1915 with 1920
Carranza assumed the presidency on May 1st, 1915. It set up an independent legal system, more decentralization, and a land reform under the system of the Ejido. It was a man of a great intelligence with a vast knowledge of the situation and Mexican history. He was also opportunist and without pity for his adversaries. The Zapatist ones that it fought invented the verb " carrancear" drawn from its name, and which meant plundering, dead and desolation.
In September 1916, he saw the need for a new constitution and called a constitutional convention. The constitution of Querétaro is adopted on February 5th, 1917. May 1st, 1917, he was elected the first president under the new constitution.
The bloody combat continued with factions opposed to Carranza supported by its red battalions of the " LED obrero mundial" put; , energy of the landowners and the catholic conservatives to the bands of Emiliano Zapata and to the armies made up of Francisco Villa. It offered a reward on the head of Zapata, which led to its assassination in a ambush (1919).
As its presidency was finished, it chooses Ignacio Bonillas like its successor. Ignacio Bonillas, unknown of all, were ambassador in Washington. It was to be used as puppet for Carranza.
That been worth to him the resentment of its revolutionary comrades who entredéchiraient themselves already for the capacity Álvaro Obregón and Adolfo of Huerta like Plutarco Elias Calles, which with the plan of Agua Prieta that they had conceived, forced it to leave Mexico City to go towards Veracruz but it was intercepted and assassinated on the way in Tlaxcalaltongo.
Its political enemies had called it the " dog running of Révolution".
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