Word: emiliano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system of land tenure that dominates Latin America," said a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture study, "has not resulted in a satisfactory adjustment between population and land resources." Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910. Many Latin American constitutions nowadays contain a fervent clause about the need for land reform. At a meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America last week in Panama, the 21 hemisphere nations recommended agrarian reform "whenever appropriate...
...Only 55% of Mexico's citizens now live off the land (compared to 80% in 1930). The most prosperous Mexican farmers are the big ones, who have found ways of getting around land reform's parcelization. Among the richest planters in Morelos is Nicolas Zapata, son of Emiliano...
...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...
...economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability...
...expropriating Cananea, President Ruiz Cortines was only doing what every Mexican has expected of every Mexican president since 1911, when illiterate Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata cried "Land and Liberty!" In the first 18 years of the program six Presidents handed over 17½ million acres to landless peasants. Land Reformer Lazaro Cárdenas (1934-40) parceled out 45 million acres; Avila Camacho (1940-46). 13 million acres; Miguel Alemán (1946-52). 10 million. In all, 93 million acres, nearly 20% of Mexico's total area, were handed over to 2,000,000 landless peons, who organized themselves...