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A historical fantasy of the Mexican Revolution told from the POVs of Álvaro Obregón, Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata.
It all begins with a dictator named Porfirio Díaz, who reigns over Mexico for thirty years, and signs a ton of Mexican land to the ever-meddlesome United States as well as Europe, and rules the country with an iron fist. By the end of the Porfiriato, Mexico is almost bankrupt and the populace has adopted a slogan of "Mexico for the Mexicans."
Sonora, 1883.
Álvaro Obregón is a three-year-old son of a widow from a wealthy, land-owning family. One day, he's playing in the street out of sight of his mother, is nearly hit by a carriage, but is saved and escorted home by a man that will change his life.
Durango, 1894.
Legend has it that Pancho Villa became an outlaw when he shot a wealthy hacendado who assaulted his twelve-year-old sister. We meet him as José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, before the myth, before the legend, and before both a horrible crime and the system he was raised under tore his family apart.
Mexico, 1910.
Two years after President Díaz gives an interview saying he will not run for re-election in 1910, Francisco I. Madero runs for President of Mexico and is jailed for sedition. He escapes to San Antonio, Texas, and writes the Plan de San Luis, calling for an armed uprising against Díaz to begin on November 20, 1910.
In the South, this call is answered by Emiliano Zapata, a horse trainer living in the area that has suffered most from land theft under the hacienda system. In the North, it takes root in the men under command of a bandit named Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
This is the story of how Mexico rose up and took back what belonged to it.