April 10, 2011
is customary to who runs this blog, read the newspapers on Sunday morning. Great is my surprise to see that on this day April 10, anniversary of the death of General Emiliano Zapata, virtually no news about this event.
asked me some questions: Why
not given the same treatment to this date as 21 March? Why
little news about it?
Why so little information?
contrasts in the press the rivers of ink on the news of the "war on organized crime" and "Classic Classic" in contrast to the absence of notes on the death anniversary of Zapata.
After the disappointment that I had to read print, I decided to look up information in a more democratic and less biased: the network.
I came across the following information, which I consider valuable and worth sharing ... here doing my part.
@ rockcommel
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Source: Díaz Soto y Gama, Antonio, The agrarian revolution in the south and their leader Emiliano Zapata, Mexico, Ediciones El Caballito, 1976, pp. 227 to 238.
When you get there on the morning of April 10, 1919, rumors that the enemy was approaching, so the General Zapata, according to Guajardo, fighter managed devices: Guajardo attack the enemy on the plain, while Zapata, we would face at a point known as the stone on top.
The alarm was false, because the enemy did not appear anywhere, and then took the opportunity to Guajardo invited Zapata to lunch with him on the helmet Chinameca the Treasury, which forms an enclosure completely enclosed by high walls and only has a protected by a cover provided with battlements.
that door had to forcibly enter Zapata if he accepted the invitation, as he did, and in that instant consummated the tragedy, as the party ignoble mentioned, details.
Let's see the colonel, the chief said Zapata, who come only ten men with me, ordered. We followed ten as he ordered, leaving the rest of the people, very confident, shaded under the trees and the sheathed carbines. The guard made (the people of Guajardo) seemed prepared to do the honors (the Chief Zapata). Three times he played the bugle call of honor, and off the last note, to get the commander in chief to the lintel of the door, in the most treacherous, most cowardly, more villainous, point blank, without giving time to take up guns , the soldiers presented arms, discharged their guns twice and our general unforgettable Zapata fell to rise no more. His faithful assistant, Agustín Cortés, died at the same time. Palacios must have been murdered inside the hacienda. The shock was terrible; the Guajardo traitor soldiers, holed up in the hills in the plain, in the ravine, everywhere (about a thousand men), unloaded their guns on us. Soon the resistance was useless, on the one hand a handful of men were shocked by the loss of the head and the other a thousand enemies who took advantage of our confusion to beat us fiercely. That's the tragedy, and corresponded Guajardo, the treacherous, the nobility of our commander in chief. Thus died Emiliano Zapata. So die the brave men of honor, when their enemies to deal with them, they resort to treachery and crime ...
S. Major Reyes Avilés .- Signed.
version of the facts contained in the front, I have been confirmed by all the eyewitnesses who, following the events, I requested a report thereon.
Regarding the attitude of Carranza, suffice it to say that Colonel Guajardo honored for his achievement, immediately elevating the general level and providing a reward of fifty thousand pesos ...
As the outrage would take me too far if I comment on this unspeakable crime, I will simply say that the trial of posterity against Carranza, has to be severe, as has been because of all the contemporary personalism not blinded by a blind, and that will undoubtedly) one of the most serious charges make history against Mr. Carranza.
Source: Díaz Soto y Gama, Antonio, The agrarian revolution in the south and their leader Emiliano Zapata, Mexico, Ediciones El Caballito, 1976, pp. 227 to 238.
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As a bonus video of the funeral of General Zapata:
FUNERAL DE EMILIANO ZAPATA by pacogaray
Here is another clip related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfQiPZIRvs
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