Zapata made a command structure with a man everywhere, lots of raids.
Violence escalates.
Zapata returns to Tlaltizapan and is frustrated wtih Cuernavaca.
Railways are in pieces, disfunctional.
Carranza wants to control everything from the center, wants to purge all ex-whatevers.
Different than Villa, wants true control, puts emphasis on personality of his men.
Carranza doesn't have a huge vision like Zapata or Villa.
Carranza was a hard worker and had few friends, hated human contact, bad personality.
Both Carranza and Obregon saw Catholicism as a reactionary idea, and Carranza didn't stop anticlerical rioting.
Carranza has no set ideas on land reform. Contemptuous of peasants, he listened to Obregon.
Diaz was always lucky, and did very well, 1917-onwards.
Felicistas helped Villa and Zapata, very powerful. Zapata wanted to get back into reform, and abandons attacks on Mexico City. Zapata gets paranoid and seems cursed. Realizes that Montano was correct, and is advised by Magana to find allies in Carranza's men.
Obregon's doing fine, emphasizes national problems, not local ones.
Zapata is freaking out, especially after interviews with Gates, foresees dangers and is concerned. Magana is cautious.
Mexico, 1917-onwards is almost falling into famine/pestilence/disease. Carranza is not good enough to fix everything.
Zapata is still freaking out, Gonzalez returns, but Zapata will not give up anything.
Carranza sends word to G. to end Zapata. G. writes Z. a note.
Early April (10th), Zapata goes to hacienda, Guajaro invites him in, and Zapata is shot, dies immediately.
Guajaro's men hide the body and send it to Gonzalez. Many urban legends surround his death.
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