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Emiliano Zapata
Title: Emiliano Zapata
Category: History
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Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata was born on August 8, 1879, in Anenecuilco, Mexico. He was the ninth of 10 children of Cleofas Salazar and Gabriel Zapata, who worked a plot of land in the village and also raised cattle and horses. Emiliano was an orphan by age 16. He was a Mexican revolutionary. The family was not poor, but luxuries and comforts were few. Emiliano’s father taught him to ride a horse at a young age and his …showed first 75 words of 706 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 706 total…being tried and convicted. After being shot, Zapata was loaded onto a mule and taken to Cuautla, where he was dumped on the street. To prove that he was really dead, flashlights were shown on his face and photographs taken. He was 39 years old.
This didn’t destroy the myth of his death, because Zapata couldn’t and wouldn’t die! Like Commandante Marcos, he was too smart to be killed in an ambush.
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