The Zapata libertarian work

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Zapata never distributed land for the peasants
The Zapata libertarian work
By: Carlos Damian July 18, 2009
Villa was lacking urban vices as; to smoke or to drink in excess
Mexico. - Emiliano Zapata was born August 8, 1879 in San Miguel Anenecuilco. It was murdered to perfidy to the age of 39 years old in 1919, nine years after that had directed the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz. Zapata never distributed a land millimeter, on the contrary as falling of indigenous, he was rooted in a community spirit, headmaster an irregular army based on the support of small neighboring peoples, whose movements’ frontier is the heartland. All his struggle spirit is based on the lands expropriation and delivered in body and soul to solve problems of an individual’s society of small proprietary, though communitarian organized.These disposable histories, whose depth is not greater than that of spectacles’ bulletin, we could not try to the epic to Zapata to 100 years to his libertarian work, it would deserve reflection deeper, and more critical than they have provided us their principal narrating and biographers of his great adventure on behalf of the Mexican revolution. Since we lived in an era that we would conceive as the "making history of celebration", in the one which the rapidity with the one which is forgotten is just greater to the futility with the one which is celebrated be epoch-making. Though in any event we suspect that in the Zapata mythology and in the Villa mythology, the cannibalism mediatic did not go from footnote.The tragic history of the revolution between Villa and ZapataIt is probable that the Zapata’s squad in the battles that fighted in Chinameca and Jojutla they may have been as decisive as those which directed Francisco Villa and Pascual Orozco in Juarez City, but it is certain that the fragile commitment between the principal personages of the revolution give beginning to the tragic history. There was a native, liberal and landowner of the north, call Francisco I. Madero with a burgess mentality that the alone idea he of delivering lands to crossbreed and indigenous communities was a useless and needy action.Madero had come to power to preserve the hegemony of the rich, they now conglomerates in a democratic regime. But for Villa and Zapata was a just and necessary action, this “lands restitution” for the "double revolutionary” it was legitimating and was justifying the revolt in against of the president Porfirio Díaz (author of the massacre of the Yaqui tribe). When were confronted Madero and Zapata, Madero demanded to him that declined the weapons; Zapata answered to him: "First the land, after the weapons"; this brutal aspect of crushing the liberal movement of the people that was directing Zapata, yet is made difficult to understand the aura that surrounds of idealism and innocence the movement of Zapata’s square. The phrase of the commander of the south was "Reform, Freedom, Justice and Law", however Ricardo Flores Magón, the ideologist of the revolution, his motto was "Earth and Freedom".Of different planets were seeming to originate as much Francisco Villa (Doroteo Arango) as Emiliano Zapata; one native the other indigenous; one was landowner the other of low class of peasantry; one of the north the other of the south of Mexico; one guerrilla the other peasant directing the indigenous revolt. Two cultures being confronted in the revolt deposits of the Mexican people against the dictator Díaz, with its allies Madero and Venustiano Carranza.The amazing Villa loyalty with MaderoThis space is short but a comparison between the chief of the “Division of the North“ (Villa) and the “Commander of the South” (Zapata) would show us two incompatible realities and simply no translatable. Villa was northern, border, already bound to the culture of the individualism (European), and he was representing to a pay army, professional that could be moved to distances not imaginable in short times. The great work of Villa is double: the destruction of the ancient federal army (the greater political work - social of the revolution) and the beginning of the violent separation between the Church and the weapons.Zapata in so much that never delivered he land to the peasantry Mexican, headmaster a popular army with spirit Virgin of Guadalupe, supported by the neighboring towns, with the vices of smoking, it drinking tequila and to hide its children. The land is a sacred property, bound to the lower clergy. Upon annotating "what is sacred" we must conceive what is sacred as: "What is sacred is horror". For Zapata upon losing the land was meaning the horror, that is mean, the place in which the life makes no sense some. We can find something common in both personages: there is no frequent news of the fact that they may have suffered of corruption practices as opposed to Carranza.The Zapata and Villa mythologyThe figures of the “a couple of revolutionary” emphasize as an icon of the Mexican Revolution, in rigor nobody there can neither it could with the Zapata and Villa figures; defeated to De la Barra and to Madero, defeated to Victorian Huerta with its cockroach armies, also of the punitive actions of the heirs of the constitution could liquidate it. The only one person that it could with Zapata was Zapata, also the Villa figure is magnify with the time and is returned holy of the Mexico’s people. Both were abandoned by the people at the end of the internal war. The tired Mexican peoples of the fratricide and satisfied struggles their demands after 1917 abandoned the fighting by their ideal cajolement the revolutionary fight. Both yet they are lifted to follow fighting from 1910 for the article 3, 27 and 123 therefore they had given their lives, their children and their ideal. (La Jornada, opinion, p. 17, August 08, 2009).