When ASARCO Property was Confiscated!

A very interesting article from www.Vdare.com about ASARCO's history. This follows this post about the white supremacist gangs that have been in the news recently.  In the meantime, you can read two very interesting books HERE.

And Pancho Villa

 

Zapata, Villa and most of the Mexican revolutionaries were avowed socialists. One of the chief goals of the revolution was the nationalization of land, and the expropriation of mining and oil assets owned by Americans. Thus in 1915, Villa confiscated smelters owned by American Smelting And Refining Company in the state of Chihuahua. (Not surprisingly, he proved incapable of running the mine on his own.)

And in January 1916 in Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, Villa's supporters attacked a train on Mexican Central Railroad. They singled out the 17 American civilians on board and murdered them in cold blood.

Two months later, Villa went on from killing Americans in Mexico to border incursions. Yelling "Viva Villa" and "Viva Mexico"—just as Hickenlooper shouted at the Museo de las Americas—his men raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico at 4:15 in the morning on March 9, looting and burning homes and killing another 18 Americans in the process.

While these are the most infamous atrocities committed against Americans during the Mexican Revolution, there were literally dozens of similar incidents occurring during the Mexican Revolution from 1910 through 1918.