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The Mexican Army ( Spanish: Ejército Mexicano) is the combined land and air branch and is the largest part of the Mexican Armed Forces; it is also known as the National Defense Army. The Army is under the authority of the Secretariat of National Defense or SEDENA and is headed by the Secretary of National Defence.
The Mexican Armed Forces ( Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de México) are the military forces of the United Mexican States. The Spanish crown established a standing military in colonial Mexico in the eighteenth century. [ 5] After Mexican independence in 1821, the military played an important political role, with army generals serving as heads of ...
The decade-long conflict of the Mexican Revolution saw the Mexican Federal Army pitted against the coalition of revolutionary forces in northern Mexico, the Constitutionalist Army led by Venustiano Carranza, and the armed peasantry in the south, led by Emiliano Zapata. The outbreak of the Revolution was a protest against the three-decade regime ...
Santa María Rayón, Estado de México. 24th Military Zone ( 24/a. Z.M. ) Cuernavaca, Morelos. 37th Military Zone ( 37/a. Z.M. ) Santa Lucía, Estado de México. Second Military Region (II Región militar) HQ in Mexicali, Baja California. Covers the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora.
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The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA); Spanish: Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional is the government department responsible for managing Mexico's Army and Air Forces. Its head is the Secretary of National Defense who, like the co-equal Secretary of the Navy , is directly answerable to the President. [ 2 ]
e. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation ( Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN ), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [sapaˈtistas] ), is a far-left political and militant group that controlled a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. [ 4][ 5][ 6][ 7]
Rank badges have a band of colour indicating branch: Colour. Branch/service. Gold. General officers. Light brown. General staff; Presidential Guards Corps, Presidential High Command. Purple. Army aviation (includes the Air Force); Parachutist Fusiliers.