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‘Zapatismo was more of a reactionary than a revolutionary movement.’ Discuss in the context of the Mexican Revolution up to 1920
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'Zapatismo was more of a reactionary than a revolutionary movement.' Discuss in the context of the Mexican Revolution up to 1920 Emiliano Zapata, an almost pure-blooded Tlahuican, was born in Morelos at a time when caudillismo politics were giving way to predominantly liberal systems in Latin America. He was by no means rich but his birth-right of a share in a small rancho made him considerably better off than many of his neighbours whose own livelihood was rid of nearly all its independence when the ejidos, common-land which had been 'granted' to the natives by the conquistadores some 300 years earlier and which were used as pasture by the peones, were 'de-nationalised' under the Ley Lerdo of 1856 and sold-off, mainly to wealthy hacendados. This law was conceived of mainly as an attack on the church but also served as an assertion of liberal non-state-interventionism and an attack on privilege. That...
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