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José Victoriano Huerta Márquez, the vice president of Mexico, led a coup against the president in 1913 during the first phase of the Mexican Revolution. Huerta established a harsh military Dictatorship, which lasted about a year. US President Woodrow Wilson could not find a way to recognize the new government, because of sympathy for the masses, so he sent troops to occupy the port of Veracruz. General Pershing led other troops against Pancho Villa. The war with Germany was imminent, and after a few Americans died the troops were withdrawn and the Mexicans had to sort it out themselves. So, the phrase, "shooting men into self-government" was coined by Walter F. Page, as an American Policy that was in the minds of people at the time. " If necessary, the Americans would stay there for 200 years and shoot men for that little space until they learn to rule themselves."

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