RIP Zapata

Explanation: The Mexican Revolution erupted in 1910 when Francisco Madero published the Plan of San Luis Potosi calling for an uprising to overthrow longtime Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz and bring democracy to Mexico. Well this worked out relatively quickly, but while the whole thing almost instantly devolved into a massive clusterfuck one thing remained constant: Agrarian revolutionaries demanding land reform in Morelos, Mexico's second smallest state, would be a near-permanent thorn in the side of whoever happened to be sitting in Mexico City at the time, contributing to the revolving door of governments until 1920. These guys would come to be known as the Zapatistas after their leader Emiliano Zapata, even after the man himself was quite controversially assassinated in 1919 by the then-government. A year later, they'd align themselves with Alvaro Obregon in overthrowing the final poor sod of the revolution: President of Mexico Venustiano Carranza, who for the record 100% deserved it. Obregon would later become president and, despite being a free market capitalist at heart, knew that in order to end the revolution he needed to give the Zapatistas what they wanted, and so that's what he did: Zapatista generals would be appointed into various military and political government posts and implement a large-scale land reform and redistribution program with government support. Somehow, despite everything, they won, but at what cost?

Note: It is literally impossible to do the Mexican Revolution justice in a post like this, so I stuck to events of immediate relevance. I recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast series on it to anyone who wants to learn what the fuck happened in Mexico in 1910-1920. Be warned, though: It's (very appropriately) 14 hours long.