Anenecuilco gave Zapata its colonial land titles in 1909; the man he left them to was killed in a land fight with Zapata's son

In 1909 the elders of Anenecuilco elected Emiliano Zapata, then 30, president of the village council. The village kept colonial-era papers on its land to use against the sugar haciendas. Zapata made Francisco "Chico" Franco keeper of the títulos primordiales. In 1920 the government refused Anenecuilco restitution because it "did not prove titles" and gave a provisional grant of 499 hectares. Claims in 1929 and 1934 were rejected. Franco hid the papers in rock crevices in the hills. The journalist Mario Gill, writing about 1952, reported that Zapata's eldest son Nicolás, who became municipal president of Cuautla in 1937 and later a deputy, held more than 400 tareas of the village's best land where the standard plot was 40. Gill wrote that Franco led the fight against him, that Cuautla police attacked Franco's house to kill him and take the documents, and that the wounded Franco was finished off at Cañón de Lobos. Gill reported that the village held Nicolás responsible; no court finding is reported. Franco's daughter took the archive to the historian Jesús Sotelo Inclán. A 2020 open letter by the writer Mario Casasús says Franco and two sons were killed in December 1947, that Sotelo's brother Guillermo sold the archive to President Carlos Salinas for 9 million pesos, and that it is held at the Museo Casa Zapata in Anenecuilco^†.