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"Pancho Villa," people whispered at the start of the 20th hundred years, "can march 100 a long way without halting, live 100 days and nights without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and wipe out 100 men without remorse." The star of Francisco Villa is full of heroism, tragedy and romance. It is the story of a poor farmer boy who became a bandit out necessarily, after avenging an injustice on his family; a armed service genius who flew from an oppressive federal to lead the greatest revolutionary military in his country's background, and defeated dictatorship to become Mexico´s liberator, only to show up again in disgrace when his soldiers forgotten him or were massacred by the adversary. Pancho Villa and his cavalry, Mexicans explain with a degree of pride, invaded america, and even though they arrived and tried to capture him, they never found him. That is, at least, the version that the majority of them know, but it's certainly not the same as in their textbooks. The storyplot of Francisco Villa bypassed recognized censorship from era to era, like leaves sailing at full rate on the surface of an stream. However the historical reconstruction is full of nuances. Was he a freedom fighter, or a bandit? Was he a Mexican Robin Hood, or a thief and a murderer? Was he present when his soldiers invaded U.S. place? Was the move forward of his famous "Dorados" (the "golden ones," the name of his soldiers) the reason for pleasure, or terror one of the people as they exceeded the countryside towards Mexico City? Pancho Villa´s personality has been controversial since the start of his profession as an over-all of the revolutionary army. A little more than 100 years ago a Mexican peasant named Emiliano Zapata gathered a rural military from the plantations and villages of southern Mexico, seized the lands of the haciendas, and started to disperse them one of the peasants of Anenecuilco, his hometown, in the point out of Morelos. Outraged and impatient with the ceaseless destitution of the indigenous peoples at the hands of the landowners, he had decided to take justice in his hands. His flag was Liberty and Justice, the precise opposites of both burdens that got tyrannized the rural population: work in semi-slavery conditions and tremendous inequality. Zapata, who in a few years assembled a popular military of 25,000, was a unique case in the history of Mexico. His country's past had consisted of opportunist generals revolting against the federal government seeking never to make justice, but to seize electricity. Conversely, Zapata was not enthusiastic about politics or electricity works, except in their most sensible and immediate form: to disperse land one of the peasants; to allow them to work in peace; and to defend their benefits by pressure of arms.
