Skip to content

10 April 1919

10 April 2009

zapata

A dozen or so posts on Emiliana Zapata here.

David Agren in today’s The (Mexico City) News on the anniversary:

Zapata died April 10, 1919, in an ambush, but his legacy lives on in modern Mexico, especially in his home state of Morelos. His call for “land and liberty” during the Mexican Revolution and his refusal to waver from his armed campaign to break up large haciendas and distribute the properties to those who worked the soil made him an icon for agricultural leaders, politicians, rebels and even some in the Catholic Church. To this day, Zapata inspires many of those same groups, even though some historians question the fidelity of modern-day Zapatistas – such as the EZLN rebels in Chiapas – to his agrarian ideals.

“All those who have thought at one time that the country could be modernized through some other path, can’t help but think of Zapata and the Zapatista experience,” said Ilán Semo, a political historian at the Universidad Iberoamericana. “Zapata represents the possibility of a solution to the transformational problems of Mexico that is not individualist.”

2 Comments leave one →
  1. ody's avatar
    ody permalink
    25 August 2010 8:23 pm

    It’s Emiliano … not Emiliana

Leave a reply to richmx2 Cancel reply