Eufemio Zapata Zalazar was the brother of Mexican

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 revolutionary Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution...

. He was known as a womanizer

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, a macho man, and a very heavy drinker

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He was killed by Sidronio "el Loco" Camacho

Sidronio Camacho

Sidronio Camacho was one of the soldiers of Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution, and the killer of Emiliano's brother, Eufemio.On June 18, 1917, Camacho killed Emiliano's brother, Eufemio Zapata, who had beaten up Camacho's father, at the time Eufemio's second in command, supposedly for...

, one of Zapata's commanders, because Eufemio had become drunk and in this state, for no particular reason, proceeded to beat and insult Camacho's father. Camacho tracked Eufemio down in Cuautla

Cuautla

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 and shot Eufemio in the abdomen.

Realizing he was about to die, it is said that Eufemio asked the man to end his suffering and give him a quick death. To this Camacho replied:

"You have made many people suffer a great deal. Live a little longer, so that you also will learn what it is to suffer."

He then took Eufemio upon his horse, and threw him face-first on an anthill. Camacho, knowing Emiliano would want revenge, joined Zapata's enemies for safety.

Trivia

• Eufemio Zapata was portrayed by actor Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
  
   in the 1952 film Viva Zapata!
  Viva Zapata!
  Viva Zapata! is a 1952 fictional-biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film...
  
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Sources

• Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution by Frank Mclynn
• Viva Zapata! (novel), John Steinbeck
• Mexican Revolution of 1910 at www.latinoartcommunity.org
• Biography in Spanish