have become the first group of farmers in the state to openly grow marijuana as a legitimate agricultural crop One hundred marijuana plants have been planted in the Cuautlixco ejido (communal land area) and the group plans to cultivate a total of 500 plants according to farmer and activist Isidrio Cisneros More are planned in two other Morelos towns — Anenecuilco and Xalostoc Cisneros says the plants in Cuautlixco will be used to produce medicinal products such as CBD oil The activist and the Cuautlixco ejido members are part of a statewide campaign to promote the legal planting of marijuana for sale in Morelos In August 2021, farmers from Tetecala, along with various marijuana legalization organizations, marched in front of the offices of the state health regulatory agency in Cuernavaca with marijuana plants in tow and joints in hand. The farmers requested a license to grow the crop viewing it as a more lucrative alternative to sugar cane farming Farmers from around the state and civil society organizations from Morelos and various states signed a document last fall called the Tetecala Plan that calls for liberalizing the production sale and export of marijuana throughout the country The document was sent to President López Obrador but there has yet to be an official response to the group’s demands the Morelos Human Rights Commission recently released a statement granting protection to farmers who grow marijuana in the state “There was a lot of misinformation about the openness to [marijuana] that has slowed its cultivation,” it said [farmers] are realizing that the situation has changed and that there is more acceptance on the part of the government now.” With reports from El Sol de Cuernavaca, El Sol de Cuernavaca  and Aristegui Noticias ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy Lost Password? 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the Zapatistas a revolutionary movement based in the state of Chiapas Zapata was born in the small central Mexican state of Morelos in the village of Anenecuilco At the time Mexico was ruled by a dictatorship under Díaz The social system of the time was a sort of proto-capitalist feudal system with large landed estates (haciendas) controlling more and more of the land and squeezing it away from independent communities of Indians (pueblos) who were then subsequently forced into debt slavery (peonage) on the haciendas Díaz ran local elections to pacify the peones and run a government that they could argue was self-imposed Under Díaz close confidants and associates were given offices in districts throughout Mexico These offices became the enforcers of land reforms that concentrated the haciendas into fewer hands avoiding peonage and maintaining their own land (ranchero) In fact the family had in previous generations been porfirista Zapata himself always had a reputation for being a fancy dresser appearing at bullfights and rodeos in his elaborate charro (cowboy) costume Though his flashiness would usually have associated him with the rich hacendados who controlled the lands he seems to have retained the admiration and even adoration of the people of his village so that by the time he was 30 he was the chief of the village Though he was not of pure indigenous blood (he had some Spanish ancestry and was considered mestizo) Zapata quickly became involved in struggles for the rights of the Indians of Morelos He observed numerous conflicts between villagers and hacendados over the constant theft of village land and in one terrible instance saw the hacendados torch an entire village For many years he campaigned steadily for the rights of the villagers first establishing via ancient title deeds the claims of the villagers to disputed land and then pressing the recalcitrant governor of Morelos into action disgusted with the slow response from the government and the overt bias towards the wealthy plantation owners Porfirio Díaz was being threatened by the candidacy of Francisco I who at the time was perceived as a chance for genuine change in Mexico unrest finally broke out in the formation of guerrilla bands becoming the general of an army that formed in Morelos (the Ejercito Libertador del Sur – Liberation Army of the South) Zapata was partly influenced by an anarchist from Northern Mexico named Ricardo Flores Magón The influence of Magón on Zapata can be seen in the Zapatismo Plan de Ayala but even more notably in the Zapatista slogan “Tierra y libertad” or “land and liberty,” the title and maxim of Magón’s most famous work Zapata’s introduction to anarchism came via a local schoolteacher who exposed Zapata to the works of Peter Kropotkin and Flores Magón at the same time as Zapata was observing and beginning to participate in the struggles of the peasants for the land largely due to widespread rebellions by the peones some new land reforms were carried out and elections were to be ensured Zapata was dissatisfied with Madero’s stance on land reform to make Madero understand the importance of the issue or to get him to act on it and support the Plan de Ayala after Madero’s appointment of a governor who supported the plantation owners and his lack of motion towards settling the land issue to Zapata’s satisfaction Emiliano mobilized the Liberation Army again if the people could not win their rights now they would have no chance once they were unarmed and helpless Madero sent several generals to try and defang Zapata with little success Madero was soon thereafter overthrown by Victoriano Huerta who gave amnesty to Díaz and suppressed indigenous resistance to land reforms The peasant reaction to this increased the size of Zapata’s forces considerably and also gave rise to a new group in the north: the Villistas under Pancho Villa The Villistas were mainly composed of Madero supporters Zapata at first was hesitant to meet with Villa after Villa vehemently rejected the Plan de Ayala when a Zapatista introduced him to the concept in prison Opposition to Huerta coalesced under Venustiano Carranza who led a Constitutionalist faction which both Villa and Zapata eventually allied with These forces proved too much for Huerta to match the Constitutionalists set up a convention to decide the form of the government pointing out that none of the attendees had been elected Instead the chiefs in Morelos sent a delegation to present the Plan de Ayala for consideration and observe the state of the convention Soon thereafter Carranza had himself made head of the government Initially Carranza commanded the loyalty of Álvaro Obregón but grew increasingly fractured after many long years of campaigning The Carranza regime ultimately put a bounty on Zapata’s head expecting disenfranchised Zapatistas to betray him It also attempted to entice away the other chiefs in the Zapatista army; neither proposition proved successful a General Guajardo invited Zapata for a meeting Guajardo riddled him with bullets and turned his body in for the bounty (getting half of what was originally promised) the Liberation Army of the South slowly fell apart eventually disappearing after Obregón’s rebellion deposed Carranza particularly in revolutionary tendencies in south Mexico Via Libcom.org The ROAR Collective published ROAR Magazine (2011-’22) an online journal of the radical imagination that provided grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy More > Source URL — https://roarmag.org/2016/04/10/on-this-day-in-1919-emiliano-zapata-assassinated/