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 News from Around Banderas Bay | April 2005 
Puerto Vallarta Remembers Emiliano Zapata
 PVNN
| | Puerto Vallarta Mayor Gustavo González Villaseñor, the Mexican military, Ejidotarians, and the people of Puerto Vallarta, all paid tribute to the life of revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. |
Puerto Vallarta - On April 10th, the 86th anniversary of Zapata's death, Puerto Vallarta Mayor Gustavo González Villaseñor and city officials Iris Ulloa Godinez, María Elena Sahagún Peña, Faustino De la O'Michel, Víctor Hugo Fernández Flores and Yolanda Cuevas Cortez, celebrated the life of the father of Agrarian reform in Mexico.
In a commemorative ceremony that started at Puerto Vallarta's Plaza de Armas and ended with a tribute at the foot of the Emiliano Zapata statue in Ixtapa, municiple authorities, the Mexican military, Ejidotarians, and the people of Puerto Vallarta paid tribute to Emiliano Zapata, the father of Agrarian reform in Mexico.
The rebel leader who said "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees," Zapata was a former sharecropper who organized and led peasants during the battles of the Mexican Revolution. Joining forces with Pancho Villa and others to fight the government of Porfirio Diaz, Zapata supported agrarian reform and land redistribution.
In addition to many military victories, Zapata organized peasant committees out of which came position papers on land reform. An important part of his Cuautlan peasant committee land reform was incorporated into the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, to the benefit of the campesinos throughout the nation. His rallying cry was "Land and Freedom!"
Cuevas Cortez was the official orator of the event, and in her message, she reviewed the history of Emiliano Zapata Salazar and his works as the father of Agrarian reform in Mexico. She said that "without a doubt, Zapata's efforts were some of the most ambitious and important sociopolitical experiments in Mexico's modern history, and these reforms are still in the process of development today."
According to Cortez, "since it has been impossible to eradicate the marginalization in which a great part of the population continues to live, and the needs of all the social classes, especially those of the rural population, have not yet resolved themselves, there is still much work to be done."
She emphasized that today, more than ever, Emiliano Zapata, by his conviction to distribute the lands deserves our gratitude, saying, "the men and the women who work the land today enjoy the legal ownership of our lands, thanks to the works of our legendary revolutionary leader." |
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