Margarita Neri was a ''
Zapatista'' commander and a
soldadera during the
Mexican Revolution.
She was a
Dutch
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* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
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Indian from the
Mexican state of
Quintana Roo
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who was one of the few female military leaders to achieve fame during the revolution.
Neri is said to have led over one thousand soldiers in 1910 through Mexico just as if she were a man earning the utmost respect of Zapata. She commanded Zapatista forces through the Tabasco and Chiapas region during the early stages of the Mexican Revolution, and It is rumored that she once declared her intention to behead Porfirio Diaz personally.
[Ruíz, Vicki, and Virginia Sánchez Korrol. ''Latinas in the United States a historical encyclopedia''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.]
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Zapatistas
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Mexican people of Dutch descent
People of the Mexican Revolution
Native American women in warfare
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
Women in war in Mexico
Women in war 1900–1945
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