Mexican Indians and peasants had his murals as personifications of Mexico and at Chapingo they naturally took a central role together with the land itself, to which the whole cycle was conceived as a hymn based on Emiliano Zapata's words, 'here it is taught to exploit the land not the man'. There are panels devoted to The Partition of the Land and to Good and Bad Government, the latter recalling, if only in name, the frescoes by Lorenzetti in Siena (9.85).