In Xochimilco residents celebrate the historic moment when Mexican revolutionaries Emiliano Zapata y Pancho Villa united to further social revolution for the working and peasant classes. The demand for ‘Land And Liberty’ was more or less formalized in Mexico’s communal land distribution, but since the 1980s current neoliberal policies have favored privatization. Today the grandchildren of Zapata say that the struggle for land and freedom continues as they oppose the building of a Walmart without prior consultation in Zapatista territory. teleSUR
