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[[Image:Emiliano Zapata.jpg|thumb|500pix|Emiliano Zapato]]
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.
== Social milieu of pre-revolutionary Mexico ==
For the first 31 years of Zapata's life, Mexico was ruled by [[dictator]] [[Porfirio Diaz]], a veteran of the second [[independence]] war (against the [[French]] and their puppet [[Maximilian]]). Despite a rapidly increasing population during this time, and very slow [[industrialization]] in comparison to the United States or [[Europe]], the number of landowners actually decreased throughout Diaz's tenure. This meant that more and more persons who formerly owned their own land actually found themselves in a state of [[debt peonage]], similar to [[sharecroppers]] in the southern United States during the same period.
By the early [[20th century]], a much larger percentage of Mexicans than Americans identified themselves as what is now called [[native]].
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[[category:political people]]
[[Category:Communists]]
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.
== Social milieu of pre-revolutionary Mexico ==
For the first 31 years of Zapata's life, Mexico was ruled by [[dictator]] [[Porfirio Diaz]], a veteran of the second [[independence]] war (against the [[French]] and their puppet [[Maximilian]]). Despite a rapidly increasing population during this time, and very slow [[industrialization]] in comparison to the United States or [[Europe]], the number of landowners actually decreased throughout Diaz's tenure. This meant that more and more persons who formerly owned their own land actually found themselves in a state of [[debt peonage]], similar to [[sharecroppers]] in the southern United States during the same period.
By the early [[20th century]], a much larger percentage of Mexicans than Americans identified themselves as what is now called [[native]].
[[category:history]]
[[category:political people]]
[[Category:Communists]]