Monumento de Revolución - Skipping to the End

I’m insanely behind on this blog. At the time of writing, I have been in Sydney Australia for several days. So to skip to the end of the Mexican Revolution:

1. General Victoriano Huerta seized power and about everyone in the country turned against him.
2. Pancho Villa (escaping execution yet again) and Emiliano Zapata loosely recognized Venustiano Carranza as the “first chief” of the opposition to Huerta, known as the Constitutionalists.
3. Huerta got bodied, ran for it, and was granted asylum by the US.
4. BUT AS IT TURNS OUT Carranza, Villa, and Zapata had very different ideas about what the new government should look like and immediately started fighting among themselves
5. Zapata kept up his insurgency. Villa’s army was crushed by a general under Carranza named Obergon (who by now could look at the war in Europe in 1915 for some pointers around how good machine guns are).
6. Pancho Villa basically pulls an Osama bin Laden - attacking the United States to draw it into conflict with his enemies while he hides in a cave. Yes we have absolutely fallen for this multiple times in multiple centuries.
7. Zapata is betrayed and assassinated. Everyone else gets tired of fighting and an amnesty is put together in 1920.

TLDR: everyone fought this war for different reasons, no one came out terribly happy, the country was monumentally fucked up, and they all hated each other.

Which is why it is pretty funny they put all their bodies in the same monument. Literally each corner of it: