Domingo Arenas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican military personnel (1888-1917)
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Place of Birth: Zacatelco, Tlaxcala, Mexico
About Domingo Arenas
- Domingo Arenas (1888-1918) was a Mexican revolutionary from the state of Tlaxcala.
- Born in the Nahua community of Zacatelco, he was raised as a farmer and worked as a shepherd, bread salesman and factory worker.
- At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution he join the forces of Francisco I.
- Madero, and at the fall of Madero joined the Zapatistas against the Constitutionalists by signing the Plan de Ayala.
- Discontent with how the Zapatistas treated the locals of Tlaxcala he switched to support Venustiano Carranza against Emiliano Zapata.
- In 1916 he was killed by Zapatista general Gildardo Magaña in a botched parlay.
- At the height of their influence the Arenistas controlled most of Tlaxcala and Southern Puebla.
- The municipality of Domingo Areans is named after him.
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