The Twilight of Zapatismo.

Mexico was in cheos, mainly because of the revolutionary leaders during the Mexican revolution. During the Mexican war, Mexico printed off more money than they had and caused hyper inflation, Mexico went through famine and desieses and many financial problems. Many of Gonzales troops start to die because of the bad conditions and deseases. ( Gonzales was mean, he killed a lot of men and women, threatened people). Everyone was going through really hard times. Carranza was least affected by all this, or so it seemed, he wanted to modernize and mobilize. He was anti clericalism and wanted the catholic church under his control. He wanted Mexico to stay neutral in WWII, but he had many problems, his main problem was the military, he had to make sure the army was under control. Felix Diaz (Porfirio Diaz's nephew) vs. Corranza. Corranza felt threatened by him because the US liked him. The felicistas were as hard to defeat as Villa and Zapata. The felicistas movement was helpful to Villa and Zapata, it drew Carranza's focus away from them. Meanwhile Zapata is trying to attack tagrets only to impress foreign consuls. Carranza became frightened and wanted to get rid of Zapata, and eventually killed him in April 1917. Because of this Zapata became an icon in Morelos.