The indigenous Nahua leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution whose demand for land reform under the Plan de Ayala β "Land and Liberty" β remains the foundational statement of Mexican agrarian justice and indigenous rights. Zapata's image in his revolutionary-era photograph β mustachioed, armed, and defiant β is the most reproduced image in Mexican political iconography.
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