Abstract

AVILA ESPINOSA, Felipe Arturo. War and Politics against the Attack on the Barracks. The zapatista Revolution during the Huerta Regime. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2006, n.31, pp.109-138. ISSN 0185-2620.

The article shows that following the coup d'état with which Victoriano Huerta put an end to maderismo, the attitude of the members of the zapatista movement was quite clear; they refused to recognize Huerta and from the outset, waged a war against the man they regarded as a usurper. After 17 months of fighting, the zapatistas were able to take control of their original state, Morelos, as well as Guerrero, Puebla and the State of Mexico. This period, however, revealed the military weakness of the movement and its backwardness in relation to other revolutionary tendencies in the north, such as villismo and constitucionalismo. Despite this, the political approaches of zapatismo were the most solid and radical and those that most clearly expressed the social contents of the Revolution.

Keywords : zapatismo; huertismo; constitutionalismo; villismo; anarchism; socialism; Plan of Ayala; zapatista intellectuals.