Plan+de+Ayala



The Plan de Ayala was a revolutionary document written and published by Emiliano Zapata on November 25,1911. The Plan de Ayala was written in response to Francisco Madero's unwillingness to carry out the articles of the Plan of San Luis Potosi. During the convention at Aguascalientes in 1914, the revolutionary leaders of the time endorsed Zapata's Plan de Ayala. However Venustiano Carranza refused to accept the decisions of the convention which ultimately pitted him against Zapata.
 * Article 1:** "We who undersign, constituted in a revolutionary junta to sustain and carry out the promises which the revolution of November 20, 1910, just past, made to the country, declare solemnly [...] propositions which we have formulated to end the tyranny which oppresses us and redeem the fatherland from the dictatorships which are imposed on us." (Zapata, Womack,1)
 * Article 2:** " Recognition is withdrawn from Sr. Francisco Madero as Cheif of the Revolution and as President of the Republic." (Zapata, Womack,2)
 * Article 7:** "In virtue of the fact that the immense majority of Mexican pueblos and citizens are owners of no more than the land they walk on, suffering the horrors of poverty without being able to improve their social condition in any way or to dedicate themselves to Industry or Ariculture, because lands, timber, and water are monopolized in a few hands, for this cause there will be expropriated the third part of those monopolies from the powerful proprietors of them [...] the Mexicans' lack of prosperity and wellbeing may improve in all for all." (Zapata, Womack, 2-3)
 * Article 15:** "Mexican People, support this plan with arms in hand and you will make prosperity and well-being of the fatherland." (Zapata, Womack, 4)

Zapata, Emiliano //Plan de Ayala// translated by John Womack //Zapata and the Mexican Revolution// Vintage Books, New York 1968

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