While Day of the Dead is often thought of as just a way for families to honor lost loved ones, ... revolutionary figure Emiliano Zapata and farmworkers union leader Cesar Chavez.

Twenty years later, with his father dead, Emiliano fulfilled that childhood promise. ... The Mexican press first carried them on April 12, the same day Zapata was buried in the Cuautla cemetery.

The Indians of Chiapas knew what they were doing when they chose Emiliano Zapata as the patron saint of their insurgency. There are few figures so compelling in the history of Mexico, and no one ...

On April 10, 1919, Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was killed in Morelos by government forces.

Emiliano Zapata was buried on April 12, 1919 in the Pantheon of the city of Cuautla, Morelos. Pablo González, the mastermind of his murder, was present, as well as numerous officers and people ...

However, on August 8, 1879, a new member and future symbol of Mexican history would arrive, it should be noted that he was born on the day of “San Emiliano” and because his parents were very ...

The grandson of Gen. Emiliano Zapata is suing the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature over a painting in which the Mexican hero is observed riding a horse while wearing only high heels ...