Zapata station
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The station image represents the outline of the bust of Emiliano Zapata.
Emiliano Zapata was a leader from Morelos who headed the agrarian movement in the Mexican Revolution and who drew up the Plan of Ayala.
Zapata was born in Morelos on 8 August 1879. As a boy he was a farmhand, and at 28 he was enlisted in the Army as a soldier in the ninth cavalry regiment. He was a groom on a hacienda, and from his wanderings as a humble farmhand he understood the injustice done to the peasantry, which is where his ideas in favour of the agrarian cause began. In 1910 he fought on behalf of the indigenous people and was consequently imprisoned and sent back to the army.
When his punishment ended he returned to his town and, on learning of the Plan of San Luis proclaimed by Francisco I. Madero, he took up arms in 1911.