Deputies and deputies of Mexico they remembered 105 mournful anniversary of Emiliano Zapata which is commemorated this Wednesday, April 10. In the in-person session this Tuesday, April 9, legislators from Morena, PAN, PRI, PVEM, PT, MC y PRD expressed their reflections on this character of the Mexican Revolution and remembered his fight regarding his murder in 1919.
He deputy Juan Pablo Sánchez Rodríguez (Morena) referred that Emiliano Zapata Salazar was born and raised in Porfirio Mexico, being witness of the oppression of a oligarchy rapacious place where landowners carried out innumerable abuses against the indigenous peoples and the peasantry. “From the first years of the 20th century, Zapata was involved in battles generated by the demands for social justice and communal property of the land”.
Zapata, he said, was an honest man, not a leader who participated in the Revolution to become a landowner, but to guarantee the rights of the peasants and their land. He specified that the causes of Zapatismo were justice and well-being for the women and men of the countryside, the indigenous and the humiliated.
For the PAN, deputy Cristian Exequiel Suárez Heredia, expressed that Emiliano Zapata, better known as the “Caudillo of the South”, is remembered as one of the main leaders of the revolutionary and peasant movement; He “never renounced the objective of equitable and fair agrarian distribution, nor his ideals of social justice, democracy, equality and respect for peasant and indigenous communities.”
EMILIANO ZAPATA, A CONGRUENT MAN
He mentioned that “Emiliano Zapata was a consistent man who never gave up his ideals; he did not abandon the people or the cause; His example and struggle take on special relevance today 105 years after his assassination. The country needs leaders like Zapata, leaders who do not give up or sell themselves to the highest bidder.”
Norma Graciela Treviño Badillo, PRI deputy, pointed out that Zapata’s life and death are historical vestiges of the tireless fight for social justice, equity and freedom. She stressed that his sacrifice inspires new generations to continue the fight for social justice and human rights. “In the parliamentary group we will continue fighting for the same ideals for which Zapata gave his life, which are equality, freedom and dignity.”
Ángel Benjamín Robles Montoya, PT deputy, applauded the memory of the life and struggle of Emiliano Zapata, whose main contribution to the construction of Mexico was having dedicated his life to the demands of social justice and freedom; He was a central character in the Mexican Revolution, he said.
Representative Iliana Guadalupe Rodríguez Osuna (PRD) stressed that commemorating the memory of the men and women who participated in the Mexican Revolution allows us to transcend the ideals they forged, “principles that today true Mexicans fight to defend.” N
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