Emiliano Zapata

liberals and intellectuals began to challenge the dictator Porfirio Diaz. He had been in power for 34 years violating the principles and ideals of the Mexican Constitution of 1857. Two great men led the revolution, Francisco “Pancho” Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and till this day remain key cultural and historical symbols in history. The premise for the revolution grew out the basic belief that wealthy landowners could not continue la encomienda, a form of slave labor. Farmers felt that those…