(A) Victoriano Huerta
(B) ** Pancho Villa
(C) Emilio Aguinaldo
(D) Rudyard Kipling
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -What did Pancho Villa do? Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta. After 1914 he engaged in civil war and banditry. He became notorious in the United States for his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916.
Concept note-2: -The planning of the killing of Villa was a matter of the mind and not of might.” The bandit leader was shot from ambush at Parral in summer 1923. Two weeks later, Salas Barraza, then a federal deputy from Durango, confessed to the slaying as he was boarding a train for Laredo.
Concept note-3: -Pancho Villa Attacks Columbus, New Mexico (March 9, 1916) President Woodrow Wilson was trying to stay out of the Mexican Revolution following U.S. recognition of Carranza. Two months later, Wilson was forced to intervene when, on 9 March 1916, Pancho Villa attacked U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.
Concept note-4: -The task of capturing Villa was given to U.S. Army General John J. Pershing. Pershing’s forces entered Mexico, but failed to capture Villa.