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Mexican Revolution pt2: Villa and Zapata take Mexico City

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Ayala Plan and the Zapatista Peso

Zapata uses territorial militias, which means there's no need for the barracks. Each soldier was also a peasant who worked as land. They pool their forces for big actions and then they disperse. The Mexico City press calls Zapata the Southern Attila. One article says, under his barbaric socialism, hardly a single poor person did not see his providence in the terrible rebel leader.

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