The Rise and Fall of the Zapatistas

Cardenas' vision of agrarian socialism included a plan to uplift the whole state from its somewhat impoverished condition. He ordered a state-owned sugar mill be constructed where villages could bring cane that they might now viably grow. The reintroduction of sugar cane once again put Morelos on the radar of businessmen who saw the potential for white gold. But this process was arrested because the villages all had ironclad proof of their ownership of the land. As for the old Zapatista generation, those that yet lived had settled peacefully. There were no more rebellions. Peace had come.