Last daughter of Mexican revolutionary Zapata dies

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: El Paso Times

The last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata has died at 94.

A local government spokesman says Ana Maria Zapata Portillo died in Cuautla, the town in the central state of Morelos where she lived most of her life.

Spokesman Ivan Meneses says Zapata was buried in Cuautla on Monday, a day after she died of kidney failure.

He says she was one of three children recognized by Emiliano Zapata, who led his peasant army in a fight for land rights before he was killed in an ambush on April 10, 1919.



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[lunasun]

1. Viva Zapata!

[timo]

2. pfffft

look at the mess they are in now, and they always have been and prolly always will be.

[sce56]

6. Yeah and they have the support of the Gringos north of them helping to keep the masses enslaved!

¡Que Viva Zapata!

¡Que Viva La Revolution!

¡Y Que Viva La Raza!

[timo]

13. really??

The Mexicans do a bang up job of keeping themselves enslaved, corruption is the norm, and growing worse as the cartels battle each other for control, and they didnt learn that from America!!

[sce56]

22. Like I used to say when I spent a year down there in Yucatan

"All Mexican People know the Mexican govt is corrupt un-like the USA where they haven't a flipping clue to the depth of the corruption in DC!

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[readmoreoften]

8. El no sabe nada de nada.

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[marshall]

11. They need another anti-establishment revolutionary

Someone has to question authority and keep the crooks out.

[timo]

12. soooooo

how do you tell the difference between anti establishment revolutionary and narco cartel groups???

[marshall]

14. Follow the money

Find out who is in it for the money and who is in it for the social justice.

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[timo]

19. not me

uh no actually I dont beleive that those idiots living out their gi joe fantasys do ANY good, neither do the border patrol who drive tru our farms like idiots!!!!

[iamtechus]

3. Zapata: "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" nt

[roguevalley]

5. I use this version in the sig line of my email account:

It is better to die on your feet a free man than to live on your knees as a slave.

[marshall]

21. That is (for us) the spirit of Patrick Henry

People who believe passionately about a cause will give it their all.

[bitchkitty]

4. R.I.P. Ana Maria n/t

[GreenStormCloud]

9. One of his grandsons was a major in the U.S. Army in the mid-1960s.

I don't have a link. I just happen to remember a human interest newspaper article in Army Times.

[Judi Lynn]

18. She lived knowing her father's life stood for something important.

He was a true hero.

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