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    Nude, Pin-Up-Style Portrait Of Emiliano Zapata Sparks Protests In Mexico City

    The controversial painting depicts the Mexican revolutionary hero naked, flirtatiously glancing over his left shoulder as he rides an aroused white stallion. His only wardrobe: a pink hat and heels.
    by Vanessa Romo Dec 11, 2019 2 minutes
    A group of people, who are part of a farm union, block the entrance of the Fine Arts Palace as they fight with LGBTQ supporters about a painting showing Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata nude while wearing high heels and riding a horse, in Mexico City, Mexico.

    Picture a nude George Washington riding a white horse, wearing high heels and nothing but a coquettish pout on his lips. Now imagine a portrait of the scene hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in the nation's capital.

    That's not much different from what is happening in Mexico's most prestigious museum, Palacio de Bellas Artes, which is displaying a

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