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A little more than 100 years ago a Mexican peasant known as Emiliano Zapata gathered a rural military from the plantations and villages of southern Mexico, seized the lands of the haciendas, and started to deliver them on the list of peasants of Anenecuilco, his hometown, in the point out of Morelos. Outraged and impatient with the ceaseless destitution of the indigenous peoples as a result of the landowners, he had decided to take justice in his hands. His flag was Liberty and Justice, the precise opposites of the two burdens that experienced tyrannized the rural society: work in semi-slavery conditions and huge inequality. Zapata, who in a few years assembled a favorite military of 25,000, was a distinctive 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 ability. Conversely, Zapata had not been thinking about politics or ability plays, except in their most sensible and immediate form: to deliver land on the list of peasants; so they can work in tranquility; and to protect their increases by pressure of forearms. Thus, it was only inevitable that in his time, he was regarded as a menace, someone to get rid of in order to return to tranquility and order. Nearly a hundred years after his loss of life, Zapata remains an opaque physique. To call oneself a Zapatista in Mexico can get a person in big trouble, yet he led one of the peasant rebellions most analyzed by scholars. Historians have produced biographies that portray him as a hero, such as John Womack in the 1960s, and this of his successor and closest aide, Gildardo Magaña, who published one shortly after Zapata's death.

Category: Latin America

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Publisher	Charles River Editors
Language	English
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DATE	2017-06
Author	Charles River Editors

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