Mexican Revolution so short a time would not occur with volunteers, and the army resorted to the "leva", forced conscription. The revolutionary forces had no problem with voluntary recruitment. Most Mexican men avoided government conscription at all cost and the ones dragooned into the forces were sent to areas far away from home and were reluctant to fight. Conscripts deserted, mutinied, and attacked and murdered their officers. In April 1914, U.S. opposition to Huerta culminated in the seizure and occupation of the port of Veracruz by U.S. marines and sailors. Initially intended, in part, to prevent a German merchant vessel from delivering
Adriana Marines given a lethal injection for the death of Adriana Marines. He did not say any final statements, choosing to salute the Marines family by waving his head at them instead of asking to be forgiven. Adriana Marines Adriana Marines (1992 – September 27, 1997), was a Mexican-American girl who was murdered in her Corpus Christi, Texas home. Her murder sparked widespread local and nationwide media attention. On the afternoon of September 27, 1997, Marines' uncle, Narciso Cuellar, allegedly went to his girlfriend's house and turned violent, striking the woman various times. Upon learning about the beating that Cuellar supposedly administered