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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 Jacobin Wing

Venustiano Carranza is an old style political, but modern enough to hire a Madison Avenue agency to handle his election publicity. Critics dismissed him as a bourgeois mediocrity incarnate. So badly, nice language though. And Carranza was stubborn. He got into special problems with the other factions because he starts off with a very anti-land reform thing which of necessity ends up changing. But there are three main factions.

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