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==The last successful coup: 1920==
[[File:Next! (Homer Stinson).jpg|thumb|1920 cartoon published in the U.S. as Carranza was ousted]]

Even as Carranza's political authority was waning, he attempted to impose a political nobody, Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., [[Ignacio Bonillas]], as his successor. Under the [[Plan of Agua Prieta]], a triumvirate of Sonoran generals, [[Álvaro Obregón]], [[Plutarco Elías Calles]], and [[Adolfo de la Huerta]], with elements from the military and labor supporters in the CROM, rose in successful rebellion against Carranza, the last successful coup of the revolution.<ref name=":10">Knight, "Venustiano Carranza", vol. 1, pp. 574–575</ref> Carranza fled Mexico City by train toward Veracruz, but continued on horseback and died in an ambush, perhaps an assassination, but also possibly by suicide. Carranza's attempt to impose his choice was considered a betrayal of the Revolution and his remains were not placed in the [[Monumento a la Revolución|Monument to the Revolution]] until 1942.<ref>Benjamin, ''La Revolución'', p. 91.</ref>

"Obregón and the Sonorans, the architects of Carranza's rise and fall, shared his hard headed opportunism, but they displayed a better grasp of the mechanisms of popular mobilization, allied to social reform, that would form the bases of a durable revolutionary regime after 1920."<ref name=":11">Knight, "Venustiano Carranza", vol. 1, p. 574.</ref> The interim government of Adolfo de la Huerta negotiated Pancho Villa's surrender in 1920, rewarding him with an hacienda where he lived in peace until he floated political interest in the 1924 election. Villa was assassinated in July 1923.<ref>Wasserman, Mark. "Francisco "Pancho" Villa" in ''Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture'', vol. 5, p. 416.</ref> Álvaro Obregón was elected [[1920 Mexican general election|president in October 1920]], the first of a string of revolutionary generals – [[Plutarco Elías Calles|Calles]], [[Abelardo L. Rodríguez|Rodríguez]], [[Lázaro Cárdenas|Cárdenas]], and [[Manuel Avila Camacho|Ávila Camacho]]—to hold the presidency until 1946, when [[Miguel Alemán Valdés|Miguel Alemán]], the son of a revolutionary general, was elected.