With a love for Mexico and it’s history I spent the greater part of the two years that I lived in Mexico, during the mid-late 1990s, in search of the last surviving Zapatista veterans from the Agrarian Revolution of 1910-20.
They were the courageous fighters, who under the leadership of Emiliano Zapata fought fearlessly against injustice under the common battle cry of “Tierra y Libertad”.
My search was focused in the state of Morelos, where the Revolution of the South started; Pancho Villa (Doroteo Arango) was the leader of the Revolution of the North.
While the “kid” of those photographed was 99 years of age, the oldest was 108, all of them survivors from the last century. People who left their belongings behind and finding refuge in the surrounding hills, fighting a guerilla warfare dedicated to bettering the plight of the common man.
