Rigoberto Rodriguez Professor Hannah English 102 October 26, 2015 Rough Draft There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. Diaz was a general from the Mexican army, on 1876 he took office, creating a new era on Mexico history one that lasted more than 30 years and was called the “Porfiriato”. This was the longest and bloodiest revolution in Latin America and it ended with more than a million deaths and exiles. Men, women, children, peasants, workers, military men, middle class people, landowners, politicians, they all fought for and against a central power to create the country that we know today. The economic downturn in the first decade of the twentieth …show more content…
There was a lot of discontent and they started to use an armed force known as the “rurals”, it was a police force that was in charge of the farms, and every time a farmer complained of a rebellious peasant the rurals would come and take him with them as a soldier. In the country, violence began to be increasingly frequent such as when something was lost or stolen in the farms, the result was that police would break into the suspect criminal, take him and hang on a tree and leave them next to the road. This was done in order to create fear and thus have full control over the …show more content…
Emilio wanted peace; he wanted to defend the lands that were stolen from them peasants. Zapata wanted people to live in peace, in other words Zapata fought the revolution so that things would remain the same. On the other hand, there was Pancho Villa, who wasn’t a very educated person. Villas group, were a little bit more diverse social movement and that was what Pancho Villa wanted and stands for. The Zapata was more like a class movement with a larger goal that was land and freedom. Deep down, Villa and Zapata they both represented the poor