Guerrilla & The Hope: Lucio Cabanes DVD

Teacher-turned-guerrilla leader Lucio Cabaas was beloved by the poor of South Mexico, scorned by his government, and clandestinely watched by U.S. covert agencies. In a 7-year campaign of robberies, kidnappings, and shootouts, Cabaas, acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Ruthlessly gunned down in 1974 by the Mexican army, Cabaas is remembered fondly. THE GUERRILLA & THE HOPE celebrates the life of Cabaas. Testimonies from former guerrilla fighters, companions, relatives, and historians tell his story and explain why there have been so many armed social uprisings in Mexico in the last century.

This documentary honors the life and legacy of Lucio Cabanas, leader of one the most important peasant uprisings in Mexican history. Using interviews with family, friends, and historians, this insightful documentary sheds light on the crusading folk hero, chronicling Cabanas's life from his early days as a schoolteacher, to his metamorphosis into a revolutionary, eventually shot to death by the Mexican army in 1974.