After going into exile to México, Barrundia kept attacking Barilla's regime which was used against him as he was blamed as the culprit for all the mistakes and abuses that took place during the deceased president Justo Rufino Barrios.

[4] He would tell [...] how he would fulfill his masters requests; how after hitting someone 200 or 300 times would take a nap lulled with the groaning of his victim [to later continue] the task with renewed vigor, destroying their eyes so they would not "complain as much".

[7] Barrundia realized his mistake and had to leave Guatemala and move to Mexico when he was accused of embezzling large amounts of government money and threatened to face justice for the illegal tortures that allegedly took place by his orders.

[8] He went to Mexico, where he printed several pamphlets aimed as Barillas, which was used by the Guatemalan liberals to blame him for all the wrongdoing that occurred under president Barrios, while the latter's persona was idealized.

[9] For example, here is how liberal writer Joaquín Méndez describes both of them: His last paper bring along only outbursts of his badly hurt vanity, and expresses that he is exasperated by his absolute political impotence, because he wants to show himself as a severe republican and incorruptible democrat, the same man that here did not respect honor, life, property, age or gender, and he is responsible of almost all the bad excesses that took place during general Barrios' presidency, while he cannot claim to even the smallest portion of the merits of the transcendental progress accomplished by the Great Reformer of Guatemala.

[11] After the coup led by Salvadorian general Carlos Ezeta against president Francisco Menéndez Valdivieso, first presidential designate, Camilo Alvarez, and a number of enemies of the new government fled to Guatemala and asked president Barillas' help to stop Ezeta, claiming that he attempted to invade Guatemala; however, their real intention was to recover power in their country using the Guatemalan army to accomplish that.