Ambassador To Mexico
Wilson was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Taft on 21 December, 1909 and presented his credentials to President Diaz on 5 March, 1910. He became personally acquainted with some of the most important figures of the Revolution, such as Álvaro Obregón, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, and Francisco I. Madero. As Taft's Ambassador to Mexico, fearing the leftist tendencies of the new Madero government upon the ouster of Diaz (not to mention the fact that he considered Madero a 'lunatic'), he assumed the role of catalyst for the plot of General Victoriano Huerta, Felix Diaz, and General Bernardo Reyes against President Madero, and was purported to have assisted in arranging the murder of Madero and his vice-president, José María Pino Suárez, during La decena tragica (The Ten Tragic Days) in February 1913, a point that was later disputed by Wilson. After his inauguration in March of that year, President Woodrow Wilson was informed of events in Mexico by a clandestine agent, reporter William Bayard Hale and was appalled by Henry Lane Wilson's assistance to the Huerta coup d'etat against Madero. The President supplanted him by sending as his personal envoy John Lind, the former governor of Minnesota, and on 17 July, 1913, the President dismissed Ambassador Wilson.
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