Villa and Zapata : The Twilight of Zapatismo

Pablo Gonzalez was horrible, he looted, murdered (a lot), burned things down... Zapata went on the offensive, however, not all of his chieftains wanted to go back to war. Many of Gonzales's troops died from disease. Mexico was in a state of chaos. There was famine, disease, and there was a great financial crisis that occurred. During the revolution the leaders printed a great deal of money causing hyper-inflation. Carranza dealt with the hard times, but continued to push is political agenda. Villa and Zapata were limited by the village and hacienda, Carranza was not! Carranza wanted to modernize and mobilize. He was anti clericalism, he wanted the catholic church under his control. He wanted Mexico to stay neutral in WWII. His main problem was the military, he had to make sure the army was reliable (proven difficult throughout the Rev). His greatest new threat was Felix Diaz, Porfirio Diaz's nephew, the US kind of liked him. The felicistas were as hard to defeat as Villa and Zapata. The felicistas movement was helpful to Villa and Zapata, it drew Carranza's focus away from them. However, Zapata's aims were extremely similar to Diaz's so they were in competition for support. Zapata became paranoid. Carranza wanted to get rid of Zapata at all costs, even killing him. He did just that, had Zapata killed. Zapata was gunned down by a group of shooters, however, he became an icon in Morelos.