As thousands of villagers throughout Mexico were taking advantage of the fall of the Díaz regime to file land claims with the de la Barra and Madero governments, in Morelos a revolutionary movement under Emiliano Zapata’s leadership allowed pueblo representatives with colonial land and water titles to take back their usurped lands immediately. In the early years, military chiefs acting as first-instance judges provisionally restituted pueblo lands. Later, in response to complaints about favoritism and abuse of power, the General Headquarters of the Liberating Army of the South and Center (henceforth General Headquarters) became the highest judicial authority ruling on