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...Having no re gard for cattle, Uncle L has a herd of camels instead, along with spotted pigs, molting turkeys and a buffalo cow. Un cle L is a living figment - as well as a caricature - of the old, wild American dream. He still expects to encounter his hero, Emiliano Zapata, before he dies...
...guerrilla-banditos has exacerbated the tension in Guerrero, which has traditionally been Mexico's most warlike and trouble-some section. In March a former state governor and PRI chief was assassinated there by left-wing terrorists. On April 22 a group calling itself the "Comite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government agents arrested six suspects in the plot. Guerrero...
...country without opposition will be decided by the determination of young Mexicans to force reform. Those who see Mexico now as a political volcano expect students to do the erupting. The only guerrilla group that has acted openly in the last month is the "Cemite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" led by veteran revolutionary Genaro Vasquez. Among the groups outside of Guerrero it is difficult to say which are guerrillas and which are banditos. Mexico's healthy but deeply submerged communist party does not have the strength to be a threat to the government. Any change in the situation will...
...paste potshots began when Mexican Social Psychologist Jose de Jesus Fonseca noticed an American magazine advertisement that he felt insulted the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader...
Womack's book is about Emiliano Zapata, a guerrilla leader and agrarian reformer of the 1910-1920 period in Mexico. Other contenders in the History and Biography category are Dean Acheson's Present at the Creation and Townsend Hoopes's The Limits of Intervention...