Found this interesting tidbit while surfing

[kandrathe]

Although, rather hilariously, Villa was the great opponent of the corrupt political clan of Chihuahua, the Terrazas-Creels. His overthrow of the state government was not, by and large, a move towards graft and corruption, but rather away from it.

-Jester

That depends on what you call criminal. Carranza and Obregón were no great saints either, but to choose Pancho and Zapata instead would have been no better.