Obregón speech:

We must act so carefully as to solve the problem without endangering our welfare and our economic interests. If we begin by destroying the big estates in order to create afterwards the small property, I sincerely believe we have made a blunder....We must not destroy the big estates before creating the small one, as an unbalanced state might follow....I am of the opinion that we must act cautiously.

Obregón, Pancho Villa, and US General John Pershing, 1914

Negotiations with the US are delicate. From Jürgen Buchenau, The Last Caudillo: Álvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution:

Jose Vasconcelos