Venustiano Carranza was a leader in the Mexican civil war after Dictator Diaz was overthrown. Carranza became the first president of new, reforming Mexico, but he opposed the changes that were brought by the revolutionists. Carranza wanted to destroy the rebels of the Mexican revolution, like Zapata, because they represented everything that Carranza didn’t want for Mexico’s future. Carranza was reluctant to accept the reforms that were being pushed by the Mexican Revolution. In 1920, Obregon led a rebellion against his rule, so Carranza fled to Veracruz.  He fled by train until his train was attacked, so he rode on horseback with a few others to the mountains. On May 20th, 1920, he was betrayed and was murdered.

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“Venustiano Carranza.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Venustiano-Carranza.

“Venustiano Carranza.” Historia De México, lahistoriamexicana.mx/biografia/venustiano-carranza.