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Tampico Affair. General Adolfo de la Huerta, Rebel chief, decided to blockade the important post of Tampico on the east coast, about 200 miles north of Vera Cruz, headquarters of the Rebels. He issued the following decree...
...depart thence will be considered as enemy vessels. Such a declaration affecting Tampico could not fail to injure the interests of the U. S., as most of the oil from American oil companies in Mexico is shipped from that port. The U. S. State Department declared that de la Huerta's action was an unnecessary interference with commerce...
Fighting was verbal rather than physical. President Obregon praised U. S. President Coolidge for backing the arms sale. General de la Huerta protested against the decision and as a counter-move issued a decree claiming the oil taxes in the name of the Revolution and under the provisions of the Huerta-Lamont agreement. Physical fighting was confined to unimportant engagements, the largest of which resulted in the defeat of the Revolutionary General, Romula Figueroa, and the loss...
General Adolfo de la Huerta: "The minute the Mexican revolution succeeds I, Adolfo de la Huerta, will step down from leadership and will become a plain citizen of Mexico, without title and without office. Then I will announce my candidacy for the office of President of Mexico, pledged on my honor to uphold the Constitution and all constitutional guarantees...
...revolution are not fighting to make Adolfo de la Huerta-or any other man-President of Mexico by force of arms. I would not take the Presidency unless elected to it by the votes of my fellow citizens...