 Zúñiga's proclamations as "legitimate president" would later be imitated by José Vasconcelos (1929), Juan Andreu Almazán (1940), Manuel Clouthier (1988), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2006), and as "legitimate governor" Salvador Nava (1991), all of them being candidated considering themselves to have been victim of election fraud.Zúñiga y Miranda has a prominent spot in Diego Rivera's painting "Dream on a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda" and made an appearance in the movie "México de mis recuerdos" in 1943, in which he was played by Max Langler.Rodrigo Borja Torres wrote a book about Zúñiga's life in 1999.