Rodolfo brings up the names of all the blood within him as he says,"death of all of me" in previous lines to explain how he's been at the front of the gun and the one holding the gun simultaneously on himself. He recognizes the loss in his victories.

This reinforces what I mentioned before about them putting their lives on the line for their earth and the crops of their ancestors and culture.

Yes I just love seeing the enthusiasm in fighting for what is theirs but particularly the fact that they mention the earth as it's own thing to fight for which one shouldn't but it's still a nice sentiment instead of simply fighting over property. These people not only want legal rights over some land but they want their bonds and connections and ancestry and history all that is linked to those pieces of land and earth. The earth they all worked for over generations to cultivate so yes they will bleed and sweat for what those before them also bled and sweat so hard for them.

Joaquin chose to sacrifice and suppress a part of himself for his so called,"independence" which in reality was for this country he was in instead of his whole blood and ancestry which had been so mixed up between all the border wars that no one could identity with their whole culture anymore.

I usually don't understand these types of wording but this in particular really stood out to me as surprisingly clear and to the point. Having to chose between feeling free and your spirit being happy but having to suffer poverty versus existing in a soul sucking society doing tedious things all for the matter of being financially stable is just still such an issue till this day especially with those who come from low income homes who still fear prioritizing their mental well being all because they simply can't afford to not work or to risk changing their current lifestyle since they won't have anyone other than themselves to fall back on if it all fails. Each step and decision just having such a heavy toll on it when others don't have to think too seriously about such situations.

They were six Mexican military cadets who were killed in the defence of Mexican City during the Battle of Chapultepec

Chalpultepec was where the last-ditch Mexican resistance in the war between Mexico and the United States before the U.S. advanced on the capital. Legend also has it that Juan Escutia leapt from the tower wrapped in the Mexican flag to prevent the flag from being in the hands of the enemy.

Okay so Moctezuma was the ninth Emperor of the Aztec Empire.

This is apparently a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry.

So these Felipe and Jose Espinosa led a gang made up of their cousins who took on the nickname of the "Bloody Espinosas." The family did all of this in retaliation to having had witness the murders of 6 of their family members.

Okay so Elfego Baca was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician in New Mexico. He became an American folk hero who wanted outlaws to fear him.

Wasn't sure who this was but apparently Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo AKA the Robin Hood of the West, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.

I didn't know what despots meant but it's a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, usually people who use it in cruel or oppressive ways.

Mestizo is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry.

The Zapotecss are an indigenous people of Mexico concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Chamula is a small indigenous village in Chiapas, Mexico, where almost the entire population is indigenous and speaks an indigenous language.

The Tarahumara is a group of indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua Mexico.

I checked and the Yaqui are a Native American people of Arizona and Indigenous people of Sonora Mexico.

Rurales is a term used in respect of two armed government forces.

So I had just researched who Emiliano Zapata was and it said he was the inspiration for this movement of the Zapatista's. So the Zapatista Army of National Liberation was a far-left political and militant group that controlled a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas. They still exist today but not in the same numbers as before.

I wasn't sure who this was but apparently he was another Mexican revolutionary and was the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos and was also the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo!

I checked to see what this meant and the Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.

Wasn't sure what this meant and found out gachupin is a Spanish settler in American who immigrated from Spain.

So I wasn't sure what this meant so I looked it up and Cuauhtémoc was the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521 so he was the last ever Aztec Emperor.