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Land reform was an important issue in the Mexican Revolution, but the leader of the winning faction, wealthy landowner Venustiano Carranza was disinclined to pursue land reform. But in 1914 the two important Constitutionalist generals, Alvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa , called on him to articulate a policy of land distribution. [ 82 ]
Emiliano Zapata was a revolutionary leader from the southern state of Morelos during the Mexican revolution. [6] During the overthrow of Mexican president, Porfirio Díaz, he sided with Francisco Madero due the promises made by Madero in the Plan of San Luis Potosi, especially those on land reform. [6]
Huerta was even able to briefly muster the support of Andrés Molina Enríquez, author of The Great National Problems (Los grandes problemas nacionales), a key work urging land reform in Mexico. [89] Huerta was seemingly deeply concerned with the issue of land reform, since it was a persistent spur of peasant unrest.
Zapatismo is primarily concerned with land reform and land redistribution according to the Plan of Ayala and the Agrarian Law written in 1915, signed by Manuel Palafox. . Such documents confirmed the right of the citizen to be able to possess and cultivate the land, that lands were to be fairly returned to indigenous peasant farmers, villages were to retain the right to maintain ejido
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano saˈpata]; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary.He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
In southern Mexico, Zapata had been in rebellion against the Madero government for its slow action on land reform and continued in rebellion against the Huerta regime. However, Zapata repudiated his former high opinion of fellow revolutionary Pascual Orozco, who had also rebelled against Madero, when Orozco allied with Huerta.
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The Conventionists called for more radical, immediate land reform, with which Carranza's government did agree. [1] They also wanted to implement the Plan of Ayala (1911), written by Emiliano Zapata, calling for the redistribution of land. [3] In addition, Villa and Zapata wanted a decentralized federal government with more state autonomy. [4]