Zapata fought for the forgotten peasants of Mexico

To keep Emiliano Zapata and his peasant army out of Mexico City, troops loyal to a rival revolutionary occupied the capital on Aug. 13, 1914. Texans, especially those living along the Rio Grande, were more than curious spectators for the ten-year long bloodbath known as the Mexican Revolution. Of the estimated 300,000 Mexican citizens that fled their battle-scarred homeland, the large majority…