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[[Image:Emiliano Zapata.jpg|thumb|500pix|Emiliano Zapata]]

[[Image:Emiliano Zapata.jpg|thumb|500pix|Emiliano Zapata]]

Emiliano Zapata lived August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919.  He was of key importance in the [[Mexican Revolution]].

'''Emiliano Zapata''' lived August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919.  He was of key importance in the [[Mexican Revolution]].

Zapata has been identified as a [[communist]] by [[21st century]] [[historians]] because of his emphasis on [[land reform]].{{fact}}  He believed [[liberty]] flowed partly from this and partly from an armed citizenry.  Persons throughout [[Latin America]] with this [[ideology]] have been continuously pigeonholed as communists by the [[United States]] and other [[conservative]] forces at least since [[Operation Success]] in 1954.  It is not clear what [[Vladimir Lenin]] and other contemporaneous leaders of Communism thought of Zapata while he was alive.   

Zapata has been identified as a [[communist]] by [[21st century]] [[historians]] because of his emphasis on [[land reform]].{{fact}}  He believed [[liberty]] flowed partly from this and partly from an armed citizenry.  Persons throughout [[Latin America]] with this [[ideology]] have been continuously pigeonholed as communists by the [[United States]] and other [[conservative]] forces at least since [[Operation Success]] in 1954.  It is not clear what [[Vladimir Lenin]] and other contemporaneous leaders of Communism thought of Zapata while he was alive.   

Technically, Carranza won, and was still in power at the time of Zapata's death (by [[ambush]]) in 1919.  The latter event followed a three-year [[counterinsurgency]] led by General [[Pablo Gonzalez]] and [[Colonel]] [[Jesus Guajardo]], in Zapata's new stronghold and original home, Morelos.  They were initially as unsuccessful as Madero had been, but all other rivals to Carranza were now more or less exhausted by years of war.  Eventually, Guajardo pretended to be trying to defect to Zapata's side, enabling them to lure Zapata to a "meeting" where he was killed.  Perhaps because Guajardo had killed 57 of Gonzalez's men to make himself credible to Zapata, Guajardo's men were given only half the bounty promised by Carranza to whomever killed Zapata.   

Technically, Carranza won, and was still in power at the time of Zapata's death (by [[ambush]]) in 1919.  The latter event followed a three-year [[counterinsurgency]] led by General [[Pablo Gonzalez]] and [[Colonel]] [[Jesus Guajardo]], in Zapata's new stronghold and original home, Morelos.  They were initially as unsuccessful as Madero had been, but all other rivals to Carranza were now more or less exhausted by years of war.  Eventually, Guajardo pretended to be trying to defect to Zapata's side, enabling them to lure Zapata to a "meeting" where he was killed.  Perhaps because Guajardo had killed 57 of Gonzalez's men to make himself credible to Zapata, Guajardo's men were given only half the bounty promised by Carranza to whomever killed Zapata.   

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