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Faces for the Record. What Mathew Brady was to the U.S. Civil War, Agustín Casasola, his sons and his brother Miguel have been to the Mexican Revolution. They photographed the stormy leaders of the first upheaval-Madero, Villa, the peasant leader Zapata from Morelos, Huerta, Carranza and many another. Lugging their heavy, old-fashioned cameras, the Casasolas hustled into the field to record fighting between the opposing forces and to catch the faces of the women, soldaderas, who traveled with the armies and often fought beside their...
...Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black cloth...
Back in Mexico City, Agustín and Gustavo finally cornered Zapata as he and Villa lounged side by side in the Presidential Palace. Villa growled, "The air in here is getting cold with photographers." The Casasolas scrambled outside for a long (and safer) shot at the banquet Villa was giving Zapata, noted that the suspicious Zapata never ate a mouthful...
Since 1911, when Emiliano Zapata raised the historic cry of tierra y libertad (land and liberty), more than 47% of Mexico's crop lands have been divided among the peasants under the ejido system. Each head of a family receives the right to till some 40 acres owned not by himself, but by the community. Seven years after Cardenas, this socialistic system seems to work reasonably well, at least in the great collective farms of the Laguna and the rich plots of the Yaqui valley. But there is not enough land. Half a million people are still after ejido...
...chief of P.R.I., Mexico's largest party, had an idea: the heroes of the Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...