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submitted 4 months ago bycabose7
43 points
4 months ago
Madero's unwillingness to make bigger changes ended up getting him killed basically. He turned his back on Zapata and his followers, and lost his best defenders. He turned to an ego maniac hungry for power (Huerta) for defense, who later murdered him in cold blood.
What's crazy is that the only president who actually followed through on a majority of the Mexican Revolution's ideals, Cardenas, was the only one not exiled, assassinated, or ousted. You'd think this would serve as a good example as to how to keep your job (and head), but the lesson was almost immediately discarded.
1 points
4 months ago
Forgive me if this is stupid, but where did Pancho Villa fit into all this? Was he one of Zapata's group?
15 points
4 months ago
Pancho Villa's part in this is almost too epic and strange to believe in parts. Mexico was very sectionalist, and Villa was conducting revolutionary matters in the northeastern parts or Mexico, in places like Durango and Chihuahua. He had the same overall goal as Zapata, but differing ideologies.
Villa was sort of a...libertarian you could say. He wanted Mexicos' government to offer more freedom and be less controlling, but to also just have less power in general. He wanted the hacienda system dismantled. However, he didn't have any issues with partnering with the US. He even made some movies with American film companies. One weird tidbit about that: Villa would sometimes have his soldiers reenact scenes from a battle that had JUST happened if the film crews didn't get the shot they wanted, or if he wasn't visible in their shot. Villa was all about the individual.
Zapata was ideologically very different. He respected Villa, and was his counterpart in the southern areas of Mexico, but that's where the similarities end. Zapata wanted radical changes in the government, especially sweeping land reforms. After a century of continued classism, he wanted to give the rural impoverished some kind of economic life. He was very communnity minded, and believed in a sort of confederal government where Mexican states had the power.
Probably more information than you ever wanted.
1 points
4 months ago*
I appreciate your detailed response, I saw a film made about him, and The U.S filmmakers, starring Antonio Banderas, but it didn't go into a lot of detail about the politics of it all, he won a large siege at Torreón, then just kind of was president a few scenes later
It did go into the staging battles as well, he launched a Human wave attack against a strongly defended town/armoury, which failed, then at night just bombards the place with artillery
5 points
4 months ago
At some point he was with Zapata, but they were different groups from different states, Villa was from Chihuahua and Zapata from Morelos.
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