115: Let Them Raise Hell

Pancho Villa sits in the gilded presidential chair in the National Palace, Mexico City, on December 7, 1914. The man on the right (with a sombrero on his lap) is Emiliano Zapata. Zapata was offered his own turn in the chair, but declined.

 
The revolutionaries in Mexico ousted the dictator Victoriano Huerta, but then fell into fighting among themselves. Huerta, meanwhile, schemes with the Germans to take back the Mexican presidency, while the US government tries to stop him.
 
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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

“Marcha de Zacatecas”
Composed by Genaro Codina and Fernando Villalpando in 1892. Public domain.
Public domain recording. Source.

“Himno en Honor de Aguascalientes”
Composed by Esteban Ávila Mier and Miguel Meneses in 1867. Public domain.
Public domain recording. Source.

Closing War Theme

 

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