Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American entered a war in the world community, and when it emerged it spirit was drained and its passion tempered. Then technology spread across the land, and in little time and with almost no effort the large majority of Americans owned cars and television. The government formally took upon itself the assurance of economic prosperity in 1946, so that by today most people think they have nothing to do but complete their lives without much bother. Most of us can sit in our metropolitan communities, pleasantly board...
...some of its accoutrements, the big sombreros and the moustaches, may seem laughable to us now, the Revolution remains an instructive episode in modern history. Zapata's guerrilla tactics were those the Viet Cong use; during the Huerta dictatorship, villagers in Morelos were herded into camps while their land was defoliated, that the farmers might be pacified; journalists and outside agitators attempted to change the course of the Revolution...
Over and over, Zapata is shown as a citizen not of the world or even of Mexico, but of the little state of Morelos and, more particularly, the village of Anenecuilco. He had land there, he was a campesino. (Not a peasant, Womack insists, but a countryman--the revolutionaries of Morelos were independent farmers, no matter how pitifully small the plots they framed.) Because Zapata's forefathers had been leaders s in the village, and because he himself was known to be honest and loyal to them, in 1909 the villagers elected him president of Anenecuilco. It was a year...
...GOALS of the Morelos people were limited. The fought long and hard in big-league competition for little-league demands--the plots of land they had always farmed. Over and over Zapata made him men disarm, take off their crossed bullet belts, because a new winner in Mexico City promised him that now the campesinos of Mexico would have what belonged to them. As the years went by and the guerrilla war continued, Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages...
...revolution in Morelos would never have continued as it did if there hadn't been successive uprisings in other parts of Mexico. Zapata repeatedly made common cause with the other rebels, only to find they would not meet his demands for just land distribution. The intractability of the others (Madero, Villa, Carranza) on the one issue of land may have several causes. For one, being from the north where vast expanses of land are used primarily for grazing, the others missed the importance men could attach to a tiny place to raise a few stalks of corn. Or they were...