American press and public opinion regarding intervention in Mexico 1912-1917

The Mexican Revolution, breaking out in 1910, was marked in its first decade by almost continual violence in many parts of that country. Considered a wholly domestic problem by its leaders, it nevertheless was to have profound effect upon the international community. Owing in part to a favorable atmosphere created by the firm control of the Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, and to his desire to see his country developed rapidly by foreign capital, investors, chiefly American, British, and German, spent millions of dollars there, expecting to reap a rich harvest of profit in return.