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 ...

Madero was elected president, but received opposition from Emiliano Zapata who didn't wish to wait for the orderly implementation of Madero's desired land reforms. In November of the same year Zapata ...

Meet Emiliano Zapata: hero and martyr of the Mexican Revolution Meet Emiliano Zapata: hero and martyr of the Mexican Revolution What’s it like to be an immigrant in America? Here’s one family ...

The Mexican Revolution played a key role in ... Other figures emerged — Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata — who fought against segments of the Mexican army and took over regions they covered.