General Zapata And The Mexican Revolution

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The Mexican revolution was payed for with two-million lives; Madero, Diaz, Huerta, Carranza were all vile dictators that led the people they swore to protect to the slaughter. But General Zapata was there as well, and his integrity never gave way, nor did his morals falter, he was the only man loyal to the agrarian revolution of Mexico. He was uncompromising in his willingness to fight for his people, and in his demands for them to own their own lands. He risked his own life on the battlefield, unlike the others. And perhaps even more difficult, stood up to his brother on the point of peasant land ownership. A true peasant in the best sense of the word, Zapata loved the land and was ready to fight for it. By age thirty he was instilled as

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