Plan of Guadalupe

Plan of Guadalupe, a political manifesto dated 26 March 1913, issued by Venustiano Carranza and his followers at the Hacienda de Guadalupe, Coahuila, in northeastern Mexico. The plan was a response to the coup d'état of February 1913 that overthrew the liberal government of Francisco Madero and, following Madero's murder, installed a conservative and increasingly militarist regime under General Victoriano Huerta. Carranza, governor of Coahuila, briefly negotiated with Huerta, then, fearing for his own survival, rose in revolt. At Carranza's instigation (and against the objections of some younger, more radical, rebels) the Plan confined itself to narrowly political goals: the ouster of Huerta and the restoration of constitutional government. Thus, Carranza established himself as "First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army," with a claim to supremacy over all anti-Huerta movements that most northern rebels came to accept.

See alsoCarranza, Venustiano; Madero, Francisco Indalecio.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles C. Cumberland, The Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist Years (1972), pp. 70-71.

Douglas W. Richmond, Venustiano Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, 1893–1920 (1983), p. 45.

Enrique Krauze, Puente entre siglos: Venustiano Carranza (1987), pp. 35-37.

Additional Bibliography

Dawson, Alexander S. Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

Moguel, Josefina. Venustiano Carranza. México, DF: Editorial Planeta, 2004.

Urquizo, Francisco L. Carranza: El hombre, el político, el caudillo, el patriota. Saltillo, Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, 2006.

                                            Alan Knight