Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican agrarian revolutionary. Son of a poor peasant family, Emiliano Zapata worked as a laborer and was a poorsharecropper schooling. Zapata he was one of the greatestmilitary leaders during the Mexican Revolution, he was born San Miguel Anenecuilco in the state of Morelos on August 8 ,1879 , his father was Gabriel Zapata and her mother was Cleofas Salazar.
ZAPATA wasa man of average height shooting high, also regulate complexion,light brown skin, broad forehead, clear, large eyes and very lively black eyes, eyebrows and mustache, black hair and straight.He usedto dress with the property that the activity required to perform while working in the field wearing white cotton, straw hat and sandals belt, HE dressed charro  2 pants with wide ruled,sometimes white and sometimes red.

He was a man revered by Mexicans quietly humble, who saw in him an invincible andincorruptible moral strength to the blandishments of politicians, who also refused toaccept quotas of power nevertheless legitimize violence as a way to reach peasant demands "Land and Freedom".

He was a revolutionary who fought for equality and land and rights of the peasant in whichinjustice and inequality was the status in the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

For some Emiliano Zapata was just a bloody revolution. But for me it's an interesting character, a historical figure of mythicproportions. Was one of those messianic leaders who became the embodiment of collective sentiments and briefly swept theearth transforming.
From childhood he had been a farmer, where he had opportunityto meet the difficult problems of the field. He gave little instruction the teacher Emilio Vara. And in 1906 attended a meeting in Cuautla, which discussed how to defend the village lands. On severaloccasions went to other farms to work.

He was twenty three years when it supported the Board of Cuautla in their demands for the suburbs of Morelos, his home state. The persecution unleashed...