Source: http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/
On February 18, Huerta told Madero, “I swear to you, Mr. President, tomorrow it will be over”.
Huerta kept his word in being and active part of the plot against the government of Madero.
As copartner of the plot, Huerta led not only the arrest of the president and vice president, but also of their murders. The arrest of Madero and Pino Suárez was carried out by General Aureliano Blanquet, at the National Palace.
Taking the arm of the president, General Blanquet told him, “You are my prisoner”, to what Madero replied, ”You are a traitor”.
The resignation text was extorted by force from Madero and Pino Suárez. It states: “Citizen Secretaries of the Chamber of Deputies: given the events that have been developed in the nation, and for greater peace, we formally resign from our positions of president and vice president respectively for which we were elected. We protest what necessary. Mexico 19 February, 1913. Francisco I. Madero. José María Pino Suárez.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson expressed himself unceremoniously about Madero saying he was insane and therefore should be in a madhouse. When Ambassador Wilson briefed the foreign ministers that the new government of Mexico sought his approval of what Ministry to designate, the ambassador of Cuba made the following comment: “We think we should not reject or approve anything, but just take note of what is communicated and transmitted to our governments”.
Mrs. Sara Pérez de Madero tried unsuccessfully to meet with Huerta to save her husband. On 20 February 1913, Mrs. Madero managed to have an interview with the U.S. ambassador in which there was, in general terms, the following dialogue: -“Very well, ma’am. What is it what you want me to do?” -“I want you to use your influence to save my husband’s life and of other prisoners.”
“That is a responsibility I cannot take nor in my name or that of my government.”
Despite Wilson’s position against Madero, on February 22 at a reception at the embassy he said that according to Márquez Sterling, the life of the prisoners would be respected by Huerta because otherwise the disgrace would fall on the usurper.
Meanwhile, Madero and Pino Suárez were still imprisoned in an improvised prison, the first keeping an extraordinary serenity and the second showed sings of dejection.
According to González Garza, in those difficult moments, Madero said, “As a politician I have made two serious mistakes which have caused my downfall: wanted to please everyone and not being able to trust my true friends.”
Master Jesús Silva Herzog, in his essay the government of Madero and the Ten Days, says that Madero also lacked a greater knowledge of men and the country’s problems.
At midnight on22 February 1913, Madero and Pino Suárez left the National Palace to be moved, supposedly, to the penitentiary in different cars. Cecilio Ocón, a supporter of Felix Díaz, with a group of gendarmes, feigned an attack on the car carrying the prisoners.
Near the prison, where once was the Black Palace of Lecumberri, and nowadays the National General Archive, were brought down and killed by the police officers guarding them. The Mayor of the rural forces, Francisco Cárdenas, was in charge of murdering Madero.
The official version given by the newspapers the following day, referred to an attempt to free the prisoners by a group of friends, which led to a confrontation between those and the guards, murdering Madero and Pino Suárez.
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