Liberation Army of the South

Liberation Army of the South Zapatistas
Ejército Libertador del Sur
Zapata's Liberation Army of the South on the march in Morelos
Leaders	Pablo Torres Burgos (1911)  † Emiliano Zapata (1911–1919) † Gildardo Magaña (1919–1920) Other Commanders Genovevo de la O Manuel Palafox Felipe Neri † Otilio Montaño Sánchez † Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama Amador Salazar † Eufemio Zapata †
Dates of operation	1911–1920
Allegiance	Morelos Commune
Headquarters	Variously Ayala or the mountains
Active regions	Based in Morelos, with incursions into Puebla, Guerrero, and Mexico City
Ideology	Zapatismo Agrarian socialism Indigenism
Political position	Far-left
Size	25,000 (1914)[1]
Part of	Conventionists (1914–1917)
Allies	Francisco I. Madero (until November 1911)
Opponents	Presidents of Mexico Porfirio Díaz Francisco I. Madero (after November 1911) Victoriano Huerta Venustiano Carranza Factions Constitutionalists
Battles and wars	Mexican Revolution

The Liberation Army of the South (Spanish: Ejército Libertador del Sur, ELS) was a guerrilla force led for most of its existence by Emiliano Zapata that took part in the Mexican Revolution from 1911 to 1920.^[1] During that time, the Zapatistas fought against the national governments of Porfirio Díaz, Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, and Venustiano Carranza. Their goal was rural land reform, specifically reclaiming communal lands stolen by hacendados in the period before the revolution. Although rarely active outside their base in Morelos, they allied with Pancho Villa to support the Conventionists against the Carrancistas. After Villa's defeat, the Zapatistas remained in open rebellion. It was only after Zapata's 1919 assassination and the overthrow of the Carranza government that Zapata's successor, Gildardo Magaña, negotiated peace with President Álvaro Obregón.