Culhuacan, the other Crib of Zapatism Houses Exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- An Emiliano Zapata that loved the land and fought for it is the image presented at the exhibition Tierra y libertad: ecos del zapatismo en Culhuacan (Land and Freedom: Echoes of Zapatism in Culhuacan), integrated with different period objects of inhabitants of this region of Mexico City. The relevance of the exhibition that remains open until December 4th 2010 in Ex Convento de Culhuacan Museum lays in the fact that Culhuacan is the region where Zapatistas began the scheme of land redistribution in Federal District. “Zapata began redistributing land before Madero summoned the first Revolutionary movement, so in May 1910 he does it with the aim of corresponding to the people”, commented Ana Bedolla, one of the researchers and museographers of the cultural precinct. The exhibition organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) is based on a study of historical sources that lead to a Culhuacan draft from 1923 related to haciend

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