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Mexican Revolution pt2: Villa and Zapata take Mexico City

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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Pablo Escandón Wins With the Help of the Customary Election Fraud

In 1910, the peasants made a petition to this governor, Pablo Escandón, who'd stolen the election. So months later, in a small village named Aene Guilical, peasants meet in a general assembly and they elect their own. The land deeds are the theoretical basis for the revolution. They are material proof that legitimized recourse to armed insurrection.

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