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The U.S. relationship with Mexico has often been turbulent. For both economic and political reasons...

The U.S. relationship with Mexico has often been turbulent. For both economic and political reasons, the U.S. government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, whether they held that power legitimately or not. (President Wilson did condemn Victoriano Huerta's murders of Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez). Twice during the Revolution, the U.S. sent troops into Mexico.The U.S. has helped the Mexicans achieve independence and supported Juárez in his overthrow of emperor Maximilian, but has also supported dictators like Porfirio Díaz, while its ambassador to Mexico, acting without authority, conspired to assassinate Francisco Madero. The United States has also sent troops to bomb and occupy Veracruz and engaged in cross-border skirmishes with Francisco (Pancho) Villa and others. During the Mexican independence movement, the U.S. assisted the Mexican insurgents in achieving independence, using the Monroe Doctrine as the justification. In the reign of dictators such as Iturbide and Santa Anna, the U.S.-Mexico relationship deteriorated. When the liberal president Benito Juárez came to power with an agenda for a democratic Mexican society, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln