Eufemio Zapata
Mexican revolutionary (1873–1917)
Eufemio Zapata Salazar (1873 in Villa de Ayala – June 18, 1917, in Cuautla, Morelos) was a Mexican revolutionary and participant in the Mexican Revolution and the brother of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. He was known as a womanizer, a macho man, and an alcoholic.
Military Service
Born in 1873 in Villa de Ayala, Morelos, Eufemio Zapata was the son of Gabriel Zapata and Cleofas Salazar and the brother of Emiliano Zapata. After completing his primary education in his hometown, he dedicated himself to various businesses in Veracruz, where he was a peddler, reseller and merchant, among other things. In 1911, he returned to the state of Morelos, where he joined the Maderista movement, led by Pablo Torres Burgos and his brother Emiliano to fight the dictator Porfirio Díaz. In May of that year, he participated in the siege and capture of Cuautla and rose to the rank of colonel. In August, he was commissioned by his brother Emiliano Zapata to meet and finalize an agreement with Francisco I. Madero, in Tehuacán, Puebla. After the failed attempt at a compromise, he signed the Plan of Ayala in November 1911, already with the rank of general.
In 1912, he operated in the south and west of Puebla, where he carried out, together with his brother, efforts to take the state capital during the month of March. On April 30, 1912, he formally returned the lands that he owned to the peasants of the town of Ixcamilpa, being one of the first agrarian redistributions in Mexico.
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