Venustiano Carranza

Carranza had a stable leadership because of his emphasis on a democracy which successfully ended with most of the goals of the revolutionaries accomplished, Diaz out and democracy in. Now if only he knew when to give up power.

Rating:

Leadership 7/10

Personality 8/10

Beard 10/10

• Ideology
• political reform but no social reform
• dissolve large estates and return land to indians
• Aims
• opposed US intervention
• destroy Diaz’s regime
• agrarian reform
• new constitution
• strongly based on the 1857 constitution but altered to the 20th century
• Methods
• constitution convention
• Success/ achievements
• women were able to legalize divorce, alimony rights, own and manage property
• law and family relations
• child custody, file lawsuits, sign contracts
• kept mexico neutral in WWI
• Failures
• only a small amount of land distributed
• hacienda owners still exist
• working class suffered
• ignored his promise of free education
• Death
• refused to leave office in 1919 trying to elect a puppet candidate (unsuccessful)
• fled to Veracruz with 5 million pesos from the national treasury
• killed in 1920 by a guerrilla fighter who kills him in his sleep