@Eliazar61826971 The Constitutionalists wanted to do away with the influence of the church, where Zapatistas felt the Church was an important part of their culture.
@tajmahalo1133 But does make you wonder why? Was it lack of education on the parts of the lower-class or were the politicians so powerful and malicious that they were able to intimidate the people to keep dictatorship?
@tajmahalo1133 The peasants wanted what the power of the politicians took away from them. First it was the land that was rightfully theirs and when they no longer had the land then it was low wages where they could barely survive and many didn't
Starting in the 1920's the Mexican government tried to "reinvent Mexican popular culture and nationalism" by getting rid of original Catholicism "and creating secular saints and holidays." #hist466