coming from the province of Morelos in Mexico.
Zapata's case is an interesting one.
Zapata's not a radical revolutionary. He's not a socialist.
Indeed, in some ways, the campesinos, the people of
the land in Morelos, just want to be left alone.
They in a way are really the small âcâ conservative ones.
They don't want to have change their traditional lifestyle.
It's the sugar
plantation owners who are trying to convert all
of their plots into parts of agricultural industries,
make them workers in sugar factories,
in effect, turning their villages into factory towns.
They're the ones who are trying to transform the Mexican countryside.
And it's, Zapata who ends up leading them in a revolution against these forces.
By the early 1920s,
Villa is dead. Zapata is dead.
Millions of Mexicans have died in more
than ten years of war and political turmoil.
Mexico begin settling down again in the
1920s, under a ruling group of National Conservatives
that will eventually give way to a
balance between the National Conservatives and the socialists.
But by the 1930s,
Mexico will move more towards socialism,
a strong government dedicated to taking
away the property interest from the foreigners,
breaking up to some of the larger estates,
standing up more for the people, in part
to avoid a resumption of a Mexican civil war.
So we've looked at six cases, going all around the world,