Grandsons of Mexican Revolutionary Hero Vow to Press the Zapatista Cause Alasdair Baverstock - Fox News Latino
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Emiliano Zapata’s grandsons say they will mobilize to take the battle to Mexico’s powerbrokers (Alasdair Baverstock)

One hundred years after the death of one of Mexico’s greatest folk heroes, the descendants of Emiliano Zapata have picked up the legendary peasant revolution where their illustrious ancestor left off.

Enraged by what they perceive as “corruption and impunity at all levels of government,” the grandsons of the legendary Mexican revolutionary are uniting forces across Mexico in the hope of challenging the federal government.

“Today we are living with a powerful minority imposing unjust laws upon a feudalized population,” Jorge Zapata told Fox News Latino in the family’s hometown of Anenecuilco, south of Mexico City. “It’s almost exactly what my grandfather saw and rebelled against a century ago.”

“When my grandfather saw the wealthy abuse their power over the poor, he rose up and took decisive action,” Zapata said. “We’re going to make history repeat itself.”

The leader of a peasant uprising that engulfed southern Mexico during its 1910 revolution, Emiliano Zapata carried out a guerrilla campaign against the hacendados (landowning descendants of Spanish colonialists) in the highlands of his home state of Morelos.

...“Our grandfather gave up a comfortable life in order to fight for the rights of others, and we are willing to do the same,” Jorge vowed. “We were born with this – the obligation is in our blood.”

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