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. Born in the Nahua community of

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, he was raised as a farmer and worked as a shepherd, bread salesman and factory worker. At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution he join the forces of

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, and at the fall of Madero joined the Zapatistas against the Constitutionalists by signing the

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. Discontented with how the Zapatistas treated the locals of Tlaxcala, he switched to support

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against

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. In 1916 he was killed by Zapatista general

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in a botched parlay. At the height of their influence the Arenistas controlled most of Tlaxcala and Southern Puebla. The municipality of Domingo Arenas is named after him.Portilla, M. L. (1996). ''Los manifiestos en náhuatl de Emiliano Zapata'' (Vol. 20). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas.

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