Victoriano Huerta
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José Victoriano Huerta Márquez was a general in the Mexican Federal Army and 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero with the aid of other Mexican generals and the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. His violent seizure of power set off a new wave of armed conflict in the Mexican Revolution.
Victoriano Huerta (1850–1916), Mexican dictator (1913–1914)
General Huerta (left) with Emilio Madero, Pres. Madero's brother, and Pancho Villa, 1912.
Victoriano Huerta and his cabinet
Emiliano Zapata
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Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
Birthplace of Emiliano Zapata in Anenecuilco, today a house museum
Undated photo of Emiliano Zapata (right) and his older brother Eufemio (left), dressed in the charro fashion of the countryside. Some posthumous artistic renderings of Zapata show him dressed as an ordinary peasant
Zapatistas in Cuernavaca, 1911. Hugo Brehme, photographer