Otilio Montaño Sánchez [SEP] conflict
Otilio Montaño Sánchez
Otilio Montaño Sánchez (born in Villa de Ayala, Morelos, December 13, 1887 – died in Buenavista de Cuéllar, Guerrero, May 18, 1917) 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
workers, including the anarcho-syndicalist union "Casa del Obrero Mundial".
In 1917 he came into conflict with another "Zapatista" chief, Otilio Montaño Sánchez and played a role in having Otilio executed. After Zapata's murder in 1919, Soto y Gama continued to advise Zapata's successor, Gildardo Magaña and eventually joined the movement of Alvaro Obregon (whom Antonio called "the executor of the ideas of Emiliano Zapata") in opposition to Venustiano Carranza. Although President Obregón had asked him to serve in his cabinet