Ex Hacienda de Chinameca

Ex Hacienda de Chinameca is the site where government forces loyal to President Venustiano Carranza ambushed and killed Emiliano Zapata on April 10, 1919, luring him into the hacienda's courtyard with the promise of a defection agreement from Colonel Jesús Guajardo, who instead had troops open fire as Zapata rode through the gate. The assassination effectively ended the most sustained peasant insurgency of the Mexican Revolution, though the agrarian demands articulated in Zapata's 1911 Plan de Ayala continued to shape Mexican land-reform policy for decades afterward. The hacienda's colonial-era structure, including sections of its main house and courtyard walls, remains standing, and a bronze statue near the entrance marks the approximate spot of the ambush. The grounds now house the Museo del Agrarismo, opened in 2010 to mark the movement's centennial, which uses the assassination site itself as a starting point for a broader exhibition on the history of agrarian reform and land-rights struggles in Mexico following Zapata's death. Exhibits include photographs, period documents, and interpretive panels connecting Chinameca to the national agrarian reform program eventually enacted under later administrations. The site draws pilgrimage-style visits each April 10, when commemorative events mark the anniversary of Zapata's death, and it remains one of the most historically resonant single locations associated with the Zapatista movement.