-Zapata proposes the Plan de Ayala, which breaks up the haciendas, and gives back to the peasants. It also establishes Ejidos and expands the reach of them. 
-The plan is rejected by the constitutionalists and say they would rather fight. Zapatistas were very against this decision because their plan to give power back to the peasants failed, and instead they wanted to fight again, which the Zapatistas did not want to do.

 Who?

Emiliano Zapata and Liberation Army of the South

In 1911 when Madero, the President,  appointed a governor who supported plantation owners’ rights over the peasant farmers. From there on, rebellions went on until 1919 when he was killed by his opponents. 

Southwest Puebla is where the plan, Plan de Alaya, Zapata formed against Madero. However, Zapata’s revolution affected most of Mexico such as areas like Chihuahua for arms supply and Cuautla to fight Mexican troops. 

Zapata was a revolutionary leader that was representing the peasants for land reforms.  

Zapata was was fighting for the local farmer peasants. This was because there was a growing a tension between the farmers and their landowners. An example of this is when landowners set an entire village on fire due to the peasants’ protests.

 He accomplished this by firstly defeating Diaz and the Federal Army by forming an alliance with Madero. However, once Madero became President, the peasants were dismissed as bandits and Zapata was betrayed by his ally. To compensate for this, Zapata formed a plan with Ricardo Flores Magon, an anarchist in which his influence can be noticed in the slogan of the movement “Land and Liberty.”