“¡Viva Zapata!”
That’s the shout echoing from any justice-seeking soul
when they lay eyes on this portrait—
a modern, vibrant take on the Southern Caudillo
by navarrorosales.
“Zapata lives, the fight continues!”
or
“If Zapata were alive, he’d be marching with us!”
Those are the cries heard in protests marching down our streets.
No longer asking just for land and liberty,
but for fair work conditions,
protection of our national resources,
and a thousand more demands that never get fully met.
As long as injustice lives,
art and imagination will keep bringing back
our Morelos-born hero.