Who were the Zapatistas?

Emiliano Zapata led the Zapatistas, a group of poor peasants fighting for their agricultural land during the Mexican Revolution. They rebelled against Porfirio Diaz’s dictatorship and fought for communal land rights for indigenous peoples. After Zapata’s assassination in 1919, the Zapatistas disbanded. During the Mexican Revolution, poor peasants from the south began to unite under […]

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