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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1915

Roman Catholic Church Financed Huerta Plot

IN a confession of Col. Jose Orozco, cousin of Gen. Pascual Orozco, concerning the plot of Gen. Victorious Huerta to invade Mexico from the United States, the Roman Catholic Church is said to have financed the plan. We quote from the New York Times of November 6:—

According to him, the plot originated while Huerta was in New York after his return from Spain. The church is said by Orozco to have been concerned in the financing of this revolution. Gen. Pascual Orozco was selected as the commander in chief; and Gen. Jose Ynez Salizar, now in jail at Santa Fe, N. Mex., was to have been second in command.

Colonel Orozco, according to the report of his confession, was to organize the troops, equip them from among the refugees on this side, and send them against Juarez from the American side. He admits having armed 2,000 of these men with a part of the first shipment of 6,000 rifles which were sent here, together with 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition, 60 machine guns, and unlimited supplies. The arrest of Orozco and Huerta spoiled the plan, and it was never sufficiently revived to make it operative.

Colonel Orozco’s statement seems more than probable when we remember the eulogies of General Huerta which have appeared in the Catholic press, and the open entrance of that church in Mexican politics in the organization of the so-called Catholic party.