That's not much different from what is happening in Mexico's most prestigious museum, Palacio de Bellas Artes, which is displaying a controversial portrait of Emiliano Zapata, one of the country's ...

"For us as relatives, this denigrates the figure of our general, depicting him as gay," Mr Zapata González said, adding that the family would sue if the painting was not removed. Emiliano Zapata ...

Painter Fabián Cháirez depicted the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata on horseback, looking decidedly less macho than usual: naked, save for a pink sombrero and high heels, and mounting a ...

A painting showing Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata nude and in an effeminate pose has drawn the ire of some of Zapata’s descendants and led about 100 farmers to block the entrance to the ...

An artistic rendering of a Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata in high heels and a hat will continue to be exhibited at a Mexico City gallery despite protests from his family that sparked a ...

Emiliano Zapata, known as El Caudillo del Sur, was one of the great symbols of peasant resistance during the Mexican Revolution. He lost his life in 1919, during a military ambush where he was ...

It’s an icon of Mexican history: a black-and-white photograph of Emiliano Zapata believed taken in 1911, a year after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Published in a Mexican newspaper two ...

MEXICO CITY — When Mexicans think of Emiliano Zapata, most envision a stern-eyed rebel, a hero of the Mexican revolution, a historical figure who inspired the 1994 uprising in Chiapas.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A controversial painting of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has pitted his family and supporters against the work’s artist and the LGBT community in a ...