As an agrarian martyr, Zapata became the spiritual leader of the peasants in Mexico. Part history, part legend, his fight went beyond actions to keep alive the defense of the lands and the rights achieved. However, its symbolism, like that of the Revolution, was adopted by the State to legitimize a system of abuses that contravened the achievements of the armed struggle and led to new movements in defense of workers and peasants.

The product of interviews and tenacious research in archives, books and newspapers, this book gives an account of the formation of Rubén Jaramillo as an agrarian leader in Morelos; of his two uprisings and his two candidacies for governor of the state. Peasant, communist, religious pastor and leader of an armed struggle, Jaramillo became the perfect interlocutor between presidential power and the subjugated. The author exposes, through a sensitive and rigorous text, the ideological and material context of a guide who confronted the strongest PRI State, offered active recognition of women's rights, laid the foundations for contemporary mobilizations and collapsed the idea that the poor, in rural communities, are irrationally conservative.