Word: zapatistas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese in a little Opel, saying Mass in homes of poor villagers. Méndez Arceo even calls himself a Zapatista, after the area's favorite native son, Peasant Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata...
Films of Socialist realism, because they promote a particular ideology, always answer in the affirmative. Womack's answer is less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by Cárdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...