Word: zapata
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...drifted home again to exhibit what he had done. He ran right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...
...Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans who fought from Obregón's armored trains-they call for Adelita...
Because of the song, Adelita has come to symbolize all the sturdy women of the revolution-such scowling Amazons as Colonel Juanita, who commanded a regiment of Zapata's best cavalry; the handsome, .45-toting blondes of the Café Viena in Guadalajara, who could pick out a tune by firing at piano keys; the thousands of soldaderas who followed their men into battle, gave birth in boxcars, somehow managed also to produce three meals...
...Hand. In Medellin, Colombia, Candido Zapata, 81, veteran of four marital ventures, attended the christening of his 54th child...
...express their violent view of the world, and to print their drawings. "Orozco used to eat a priest for breakfast every morning," says Siqueiros. "He drew some very powerful anti-church cartoons for us. . . . Once I met a tough old lady warrior who had been a colonel in Zapata's army. She was also anticlerical so I brought her around to meet Orozco. Foolishly, I left them alone for a couple of minutes. When I came back she had Orozco by the hair and he was kicking her in the shins. Seems the woman believed all whites should...