Edith O’Shaughnessy, wife of the American chargé d’affaires, wrote these letters from Mexico City from October 1913 into 1914, as Washington refused to recognise the dictator Victoriano Huerta and American forces moved on Veracruz. She records receptions at the legations, the missions of John Lind, the excesses of the revolution in the north and Huerta himself, with a sharp eye and real sympathy for Mexico.
A vivid insider’s view of the Mexican Revolution and American diplomacy, as readable as a novel. Download the free EPUB.