serviceyears death_date death_place birth_place allegiance battles birth_date rank image article_title name
1910 -- 1916 16 may 18 , 1917 buenavista de cuéllar , guerrero , mexico villa de ayala , morelos , mexico liberation army of the south mexican revolution 30 december 13 , 1887 general otilio montaño.jpg otilio montaño sánchez
 otilio montaño
otilio montaño sánchez

otilio montaño sánchez -lrb- born in villa de ayala , morelos , december 13 , 1887 -- died in buenavista de cuéllar , guerrero , may 18 , 1917 -rrb- was a zapatista general during the mexican revolution .
otilio montaño was born in morelos to esteban montaño and guadalupe sánchez in 1887 .
after finishing his studies in cuautla he taught in schools in tepalcingo , jonacatepec and finally ayala .
in yautepec he became acquainted with emiliano zapata 's cousin , amador salazar .
in 1910 he supported francisco madero in his struggle against porfirio díaz and eventually joined felipe neri and amador salazar in forming the zapatista agrarian movement in morelos .
because montaño had some schooling and had worked as a school teacher , he was considered by the peasants of morelos , who comprised the majority of zapatista soldiers , as an `` intellectual '' .
after zapata broke with madero , otilio montaño remained in morelos and in november 1911 , together with emiliano , co-authored the famous plan of ayala .
zapata dictated the text of the proclamation while otilio wrote it down and proofread it .
subsequent to victoriano huerta 's coup against madero , montaño fought against huerta and eventually became a member of the zapatista ruling military junta , which was presided over by emiliano zapata and also included eufemio zapata , genovevo de la o , felipe neri , amador salazar , and manuel palafox -lrb- who acted as the secretary -rrb- .
in december 1914 , montaño accompanied zapata to the first meeting with pancho villa at xochimilco where he gave the welcoming speech and introduced the two `` jefes '' to each other .
in early 1917 montaño came into conflict with some of the other zapatista generals .
as a result , he was sent to the town of buenavista de cuellar .
soon however , an anti-zapata , pro-carranza , revolt broke out in the town and montaño was put in charge of suppressing it .
even though he had the leader of the rebellion hanged , he was accused of actually heading the rebellion .
although he vigorously denied the charges , influential zapatistas including manuel palafox and antonio díaz soto y gama argued strongly that he was in fact guilty .
zapata left the matter to his advisors .
a `` revolutionary tribunal '' was formed and palafox and soto presented evidence which was for the most part circumstantial .
montaño in turn accused the two of having betrayed the zapatista revolution .
after being found guilty , montaño was denied last rites and had a sign hung around his neck which stated `` so die all traitors to the fatherland '' .
palafox refused to let him die facing the firing squad , a customary courtesy usually granted to the condemned who requested it .
on may 18 , 1917 , he was executed , proclaiming his innocence to the end .
