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Images of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata decorate a restaurant in Mexico City
MEXICO marked the 100th anniversary last night of the assassination of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, who was gunned down by the military for his unflinching leftist ideals.
Zapata, along with Francisco “Pancho” Villa, was one of the most popular figures of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution, which began after the deeply unpopular president Porfirio Diaz rigged an election, kicking off an armed struggle over who would replace him.
Zapata led a peasant uprising in the southern state of Morelos demanding that those who tilled the land should own it, among other socialist notions.
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