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EPISODE · Apr 10, 2026 · 17 MIN

The Man They Couldn't Kill - April 10, 1919

from The Daily History Chronicle · host Richard G Backus

On April 10, 1919, Emiliano Zapata, the greatest champion of Mexico’s landless poor, rode into an ambush and was killed not by the old regime, but by his fellow revolutionaries. This episode explores the man behind the icon: the complexity he actually lived, the murder that made him unkillable, and why 75 years after his death, peasants in Chiapas took up arms in his name on the day NAFTA took effect.

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