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... “Carranza was immediately suspicious of the common agrarian origins of the Zapata and Villa forces” which he had encountered at a conference of all opposition forces meeting to discuss the possibility of a coalition government after Huerta’s resignation. ... Following periods of fighting against the combined forces of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa which drove both leaders out of Mexico City and into hiding in the mountains , the carrancistas obtained a great measure of legitimacy when in autumn of 1915 Woodrow Wilson’s government begrudgingly accorded de facto recognition of Carranza’s government in Mexico City. Carranza was by all accounts the victor in the war against Villa, and had made certain promises to safeguard US property in Mexico, thus making it pragmatic for Wilson to accord such recognition. ...
After Washington recognized the Carranza government, Villa responded with a scathing manifesto stating that Carranza had offered such concessions that would literally turn Mexico into a US colony.
Approximate Word count = 746
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