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To: marcos who wrote (147059)	10/5/2004 5:44:41 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

actually i never knew much from Villa's point of view, Zapata was always the centre of study LOL! Your body is in frozen Canada tundras while your mind, at least the part of it which pays attention to history, remains in warm tropical Morelos, or Oaxaca, or Michoacan, or Chiapas, or all or some of the above. Time to let it go north a bit, ol' buddy, time to let it roam up to Chihuahua a bit. There's some fascinating stuff to discover. And the weather is fine. It was eye-opening to learn something I should have learned long ago, namely, the connection between the Mexican wars against the Apaches and la Revolucion. As the US was successful in defeating the Apaches, they naturally looked for safer places in which to live down South, Mexico way, though of course they had always been there ini some fashion or other. The Mex. Government's successful fight against the Apaches was spear-headed by colonists, not the Army, nor by a bunch of slow Surenos dreaming about their green tropical paradises while choking on Chihuahua dust. The fight against the Apaches created a sturdy, battle-tested bunch of independent-thinking colonists who were rewarded for their efforts and skill in defeating the Apaches [and opening up northern Mexico for Commerce and Industry for Porfirio and his buddies] with nicely-sized chunks of land. As the hacendados and the politicians exerted their greed following the economic expansion brought on by the end of the Apache wars, they naturally saw opportunities to grab the land that the folks who Had Made It All Possible had been granted. They tried and were more than successful in screwing those whom they should have left alone to enjoy the fruits of their fathers' brutal wars against the Apaches. Big Mistake. These were people not to be messed with. Their sons inherited their fathers' spirit. They eventually formed the backbone of Villa's Dorados. Betcha didn't know that, though the cardinal principle is as plain as the nose on my face, namely, Greed is Bad.