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The life span of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are constructed of. Born and brought up in a tiny village in the small south-central talk about of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911 - one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution - resistant to the program of longtime president Porfirio Diaz. He fought never to fulfill personal ambitions but for the campesinos of Morelos, whose protection under the law were being systematically disregarded in Don Porfirio's courts. Widening haciendas had been appropriating land and drinking water for centuries in the state, but as the 20th hundred years began things were becoming needy. It was not long before Diaz dropped. But Zapata then learned that other countrywide market leaders - Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, and Venustiano Carranza - wouldn't normally put things right, and so he fought them, too. He fought for practically ten years until, in 1919, he was gunned down within an ambush at the hacienda Chinameca. In such a new political biography of Zapata, Brunk, a observed journalist and scholar, shows us Zapata the leader as opposed to Zapata the archetypal peasant ground-breaking. In earlier writings on Zapata, the movement was covered, and Zapata the man acquired lost in the shuffle. Brunk clearly shows that Zapata's alternatives and actions did indeed have a historical impact.
