... of elevating the status of the “martyr of Chinameca.” The architects of Zapata’s assassination, Jesús Guajardo and Pablo González, were killed and exiled, respectively. The Mexico City press slowly came around, and by 1924 politicians began making pilgrimages to Morelos every April to commemorate Zapata’s death.In ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2009 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
... of campesinos from the south-central state of Morelos joined a broader rebellion against the regime of ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Society in Latin America
1998 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
... are familiar with the names of the great Morelos sugar plantations whose drive for modernization in the late nineteenth century eventually pushed desperate peasants to revolt. Many of these haciendas bore names of Indian villages long since destroyed by indigenous population decline and the hacendados' thirst for land: Cuahuixtla, Chinameca, Zacatepec, Atlacomulco, Cocoyoc; others had religious appellations testifying ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
1981 - Cambridge University Press | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History