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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 Caranza vs. Zapata Problem

Pancho Viyya's army, officers set up in the landowner's houses. They'd use their silverware, drank their wine, and were attended by their servants. Those families with the most initiative tried to arrange marriages for their daughters. He calls it an unbridgeable class abyss. So anyway, Huerta is gone. Huerta hands authority over to Francisco Carba Hall on July 15th. Who then interned Cérenders to Mexico City on the 25th of July. Obragon moves in. The Federale Cérender sets up defensive positions to block Zapata. In Zapata's zone, meanwhile, they've basically completed the

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