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Emiliano <strong>Zapata</strong> was born in Anenecuilco, in the southern state of Morelos, on August 8th, 1879. He was born to a family of cattle ranchers, but by the age of sixteen, he was an orphan. As a young man, he participated in meetings, representing farmers in their demand for justice from the wealthy landowners who usurped their lands, accepted their work in exchange for unjust pay and then refused to share the profits of the worker’s efforts. When he participated in a meeting to demand the restitution of lands to farmers in Ayutla, the government of then president Porfirio Diaz punished him by drafting him into the ninth regiment of Cuernavaca. He was honorably discharged less than a year later. On September 12th 1909, <strong>Zapata</strong> was elected president of the Committee for the Defense of Anenecuilco Territories. But in response to <strong>Zapata</strong>’s requests on behalf of the peasants, the landowners stepped up repression against the community. Meanwhile, President Diaz had troubles of his own. Political enemy Francisco Madero was back. While running for president against Diaz, he had been arrested and released on bail only after Diaz had been declared president. But Madero jumped bail, fleeing to the U.S. and in 1910, returned to lead a revolt against the Díaz administration based on the San Luis Potosi Plan, which called for the withdrawal of Diaz from power and included clauses for the restitution of lands to underprivileged farmers. <strong>Zapata</strong>, waging his own battles against the wealthy landowners in Morelos, decides to support Madero, joining the revolution in 1911 and successfully taking several cities such as Jojutla, Chinameca and Cuernavaca; lands he later returned to the peasants. The Maderistas triumphed, pushing Porfirio Diaz into exile later that same year, but <strong>Zapata</strong> refused to disarm until all lands were returned to the natives. Meanwhile, the landowners began to campaign against <strong>Zapata</strong>, accusing him of being a bandit. On November 28th of that same year, <strong>Zapata</strong> publishes his Plan de Ayala, declaring Madero an enemy of the revolution for balking at putting the San Luis Potosi Plan into effect. He then put forth a detailed plan to confiscate a third of all lands owned by the hacenderos and return them to the peasantry. He called this document the Plan de Ayala. Among other things, the plan called Madero a traitor to the people who elected him president, states that a third of all usurped lands controlled by the landlords and bosses would be returned to the citizens of Mexico and called for a council of delegates representing each state to select an interim President of the Republic and a council of revolutionary chiefs to select a governor for each state. It was in these days when <strong>Zapata</strong> first used his now famous slogan of Tierra y Libertad.
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