Emiliano Zapata

On April 11, 1919, Emiliano Zapata, leader of the Mexican Revolutionary Movement, was murdered. Zapata was a Mexican patriot who started his struggle for acquiring farmers’ rights and giving land to them. Zapata became popular quickly as representative of vast sections of farmers and during one of the farmers’ movements, he confiscated the lands of landowners and divided them among farmers.
Zapata’s struggles prompted one of the landowners named Francisco Madero, who had been defeated in elections, to unite with Zapata, and along with Zapata’s 5000 men overthrew the Mexican dictator. But when Zapata urged Madero to be committed to his pledges to divide lands among farmers, he waged a war against Zapata and murdered him in a conspiracy arranged by an infiltrator.
Since then Zapata has been known as the symbol of nationalistic and patriotic struggle of the people of Mexico.