During the fight against Huerta, he was the first to declare that those who opposed him would be executed, as he considered his to be the only legitimate government in the land after the death of Madero.
Kot borec za demokracijo in socialne reforme je bil leta 1910 vodja revolucije proti režimu Díaza, a pod lastno upravo ni bil sposoben kontrolirati revolucionarnih sil, ki so se bile sprostile.