Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata was born on August 8, 1879, in Anenecuilco, Mexico. He was the ninth of 10 children of Cleofas Salazar and Gabriel Zapata, who worked a plot of land in the village and also raised cattle and horses. Emiliano was an orphan by age 16. He was a Mexican revolutionary. The family was not poor, but luxuries and comforts were few. Emiliano's father taught him to ride a horse at a young age and his uncle taught him how to use a firearm. These things he learned from his family provided skills that would help him for the rest of his life. At the age of 7 young Emiliano's father sent him to school. Emiliano took advantage of his situation and learned to read and write, he also developed an interest in Mexican History. When Emiliano was 9 years old, he saw his father cry because the government had unfairly reserved communal lands. Zapata swore that this would not happen again, and the future leader grew to see his dream of the Agrarian Reform be fulfilled in his native state.
This didn't destroy the myth of his death, because Zapata couldn't and wouldn't die! Like Commandante Marcos, he was too smart to be killed in an ambush. In October 1914 Carranza called an assembly of all the revolutionary forces. War broke out between the Carrancistas and the Conventionist. On August 24, Zapata ordered his army (now called the Liberation Army of the South and numbering 25,000 men) to occupy two weeks later, Zapata and Villa met on the outskirts of the capital and then visited the National Palace. The two leaders promised to fight together until they put a civilian president in the palace, and Villa accepted the Pan of Ayala. In 1917 a new U.S. envoy, William Gates, visited Zapata and then published a series of articles in the United States: he contrasted the order of the Zapata controlled zone with the chaos of the constitutional zone and said, "The true social revolution can be found among the Zapatistas". When these articles were read to Zapata, he said, " Now I can die in Peace.
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