Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ago ... THE CENTRAL figure in the story, Emiliano Zapata, became a mythical being in his own lifetime. To the Lift in Mexico and around the ...

Emiliano Zapata, known as El Caudillo del Sur, was one of the great symbols of peasant resistance during the Mexican Revolution. He lost his life in 1919, during a military ambush where he was ...