Last living daughter of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata dies at 94

Last daughter of Mexican revolutionary Zapata dies

MEXICO CITY — The last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata has died at 94.

A local government spokesman says Ana Maria Zapata Portillo died in Cuautla, the town in the central state of Morelos where she lived most of her life.

Spokesman Ivan Meneses says Zapata was buried in Cuautla on Monday, a day after she died of kidney failure.

He says she was one of three children recognized by Emiliano Zapata, who led his peasant army in a fight for land rights before he was killed in an ambush on April 10, 1919.

Zapapta’s two other children, Diego and Mateo, died previously.

Ana Maria Zapata had worked for the Morelos state government and served as a lawmaker in the state legislature.