Lunch At Café Revolución

That's Stuart, Holly (Stuart's Daughter), Elizabeth (no relation to Stuart) and Joy (Stuart's sister) after the trip up Sumidero Canyon waiting for lunch at Café Revolución. Joy's food arrived when the rest of us had finished eating - we thought about starting our own Revolución.

That's part of the decoration at Café Revolución.
It’s a painting of Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican Revolutionary, who originally supported Francisco Madero’s programme of political and social reform in Mexico. Madero’s policies failed and he was deposed (murdered) and the great cry ‘Tierra y Libertad’ (Land and Liberty) was not quieted until the revolution was made safe by the election of Alvaro Obregón to the presidency in 1920. Before then Mexico was in a state of civil war with Zapata being assassinated in 1919.
Today the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) demand social justice for indigenous peoples. EZLN fighters continue their armed struggle for land reform, social justice and democracy at all levels of Mexican politics. Tomorrow we travel into their territory...