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Mary with queen from heaven

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and you don't believe capit that the

mayor can betray I do

n't

think I can explain our conspiracy, no matter how aware Mr. J.

his wife is. These parties that only

cover up our meetings if he is not

completely with the Insurgente movement,

it is difficult to explain. In fact, do

you know if Mr. Priest Hidalgo is already inside? He has been

playing for an hour. chess

with Mr. Corregidor a pretext to

talk with him. There is no doubt that

Mr. Hidalgo is astute. I was once

told that at the San

Nicolás school when he was studying they called him "

Sor your King is in danger, Mr.

Corregidor. I see it now." I assure you that

you play the way you play,

I have it already in check, don't you believe

it, Mrs. Corregidora, I believe it, Mr.

Priest, take out the

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king

and very well played,

let's go, it's not a o

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it's

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playing with fire, sir. priest for madam He

speaks in such a way with my husband that he will

end up suspecting our conspiracy

against the regime and that in any

case, sir, he is an official of the King,

precisely that is why I gave him mate with all

treachery, otherwise the gentleman

mayor flirts with independence

more than you yourself suspect,

madam. If you were a woman more

jealous of your husband you would have already

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With permission

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Sir, good evening, Captain Allende.

Where were you? I hadn't seen you

speaking in the corridor with Captain

Aldama matters of the conspiracy

surely You affirm it with such

aplomb that I would have to say yes if it

were not for the fact that this gathering of the

magistrates' magistrates I have only come to

have fun that does not invalidate my statement

what do you mean that there

is nothing more fun than a

conspiracy apparently

my wife's favorite pastime Doña Josefa has

that good taste

permission What news you have for us

captain a very

important eddess to have chocolate between

sips we will go

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speaking, you couldn't have chosen a better

pretext to talk about what we have to

talk about. It's funny to think that of all

these people, no one suspects that the

magistrate's own house is conspiring while he's having

a snack, only to the lawyer,

madam. You should serve him a plate of

pinole instead of a cup of chocolate

and why do you give me pinole Mr. Priest

because at the last meeting you did not allow me to

speak to anyone Mr. Priest

apparently does not lose his good humor May

God

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San Miguel more than 4,000 ranchers will be

an opportune moment to launch the

proclamation of Independence and to

become people in this case we will have to

agree as soon as possible with those who

lead the movement in Guanajuato. The

proclamation must be simultaneous in

these three points of the kingdom I can

pretext a visit of a military nature

to the mayor of Riaño and speak there with the

people we have designated. On

my way through Guanajuato, I made three

important followers: Sergeants Domínguez and

Navarro and the drum major of the

Infantry Corps, Juan Garrido, please contact

me. with them You believe that Garrido does

not support I do not think he betrays us,

he admitted 70 pesos that I offered him to

win the spirit of his soldiers, very

tasty chocolates, Mrs. Jose, and he has Have

you thought, Mr. Hidalgo, about that

very important point that we left

pending in the last gathering that

you, Captain, are referring to about the flag

that we have to fly, because the more I

think about it, the more I confirm the reasons that

I gave you and with which you do not

agree.

agreement,

you insist that we must take

the Virgin of the Mexicans as our flag,

Captain, today there is no better symbol

of the nationality that we are trying to

forge than the dark image of

Guadalupana, do you believe it?

Mestizos and Indian Creoles, that is, all those who We are

going to launch ourselves against the Europeans

who govern us. They see in it a sign

of protection and freedom. In three

centuries around them, they have been forging

this homeland. We now intend to establish it,

but here comes the Lord Mayor and

now it would be prudent to talk about

other things. We will talk about this at length,

you and I, when we are alone, I want to

explain to you in detail. My idea is to go

to my priesthood one of these days and I

will carefully show you

the cultivation process of

silkworm cultivation that

has given me such good results. I see that people no longer talk about the

insurrection projects,

Mr. Hidalgo, which I really envy you.

And with good reason, the priest has the

best honey, the best grapes, and

to top it off, the best silk in the region.

By the way, the other day The

Bishop of Valladolid Deo asked me if I

knew how to tell you the method you use to

distribute the leaf with which you feed

the

worms. What do you answer, well, I

don't follow any method, making the leaf

the way it comes from the tree and the worms

distribute it to them. as you want. I hope that the

insurrection that you are promoting

does not turn out to be like the breeding of your worms.

What do you mean by this, Mr.

Corregidor? If you do not have a method

and system, the mob will launch the

pillage like the worms on the

mulberry leaves. Do it as best

you can. It is a very

sharp observation that must be taken into account,

Mrs.

Allende, and I see with pleasure, Mr. Corregidor,

that with such sound advice you contribute

more than you suppose to the success of

our cause. I, Mr.

Priest, do not hope, therefore, in Dolores, madam,

come to show you the goodness of my

silks. By the way, on one of them

I am printing

a beautiful image of the Virgin of

Guadalupe as a banner that you will like when you

see it. Good night Madam, good night

sir, I will accompany you, sir, priest,

let's be very clever. Priest Hidalgo was

quite right to the students of the

San Nicolás school when they

nicknamed him El

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fox

and you say, Sergeant, that it is

a true conspiracy Yes, sir,

mayor and more branched than

can be imagined in Querétaro in San

Miguel right here in Guanajuato there are

secret meetings of conspirators

Whom you point out as the

main leaders: the captains Ende and the

lady in San Miguel and the priest Don Miguel

Hidalgo in Dolores How do you prove

this accusation giving you these

letters and these 70s that Don

Miguel Hidalgo himself to bribe my

troops and do you know what day the conspiracy should break out?

No, mayor, but I

think there would be no time to

waste. Please write, Mr.

Secretary, to the subdelegate in San Miguel

El Grande, Mr. Don Pedro

, by orders of this

mayor, you will proceed with the

immediate arrest of the captains of the

queen's regiment garrisoned in

San

Miguel, Don Ignacio Yende and Don Juan

Aldama, and the priest of pain. Don

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the three

accused of the crime of

Conspiracy given by the mayor of

Guanajuato on the 13th day of September

1810 signed by José

Riaño

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And who is the deor the drum major of the

Infantry Juan

Garrido Close all the doors and Do not

open to anyone, whoever it may be, wait here for

my orders, I am leaving right now, stop

with Mr. Hidalgo and tell me how much

Before what happened to Captain Ald,

the horse is already saddled Yes my

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captain

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Good evening capit I need to see

immediately Mr.

Hidalgo we have been discovered Mr.

Hidalgo elal of the current mayor riao

and this dictates of apprehension for you

for eln alama and for and how can they

learn us from one moment to the next I have

come to matacaballo to ask What

we should do for now is go to

sleep to decide tomorrow with a

clear head what to do. The

Viceroy's Soldiers do not carry out with such haste

what they are told. In the last case, he orders, I

have here a mounted guard of 20

men with which we will defend ourselves.

José, give the Captain a bed in the

library, but Mr. Hidalgo, do you believe

that in these circumstances it is possible to

sleep? You don't believe it. Well, frankly, no. Well,

frankly, I believe. that

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yes in summary Polished in summary 283

machetes 614 daggers 1112 waves and 450

spears Those are the weapons that I put at your

disposal

sir, I also have some arapes there some

blankets, some straps, some ropes and 28

rifles that I have distributed among the

guard. With all this, Mr. Hidalgo,

we will assemble a mob but not an army,

okay, but with the mob we will be able to

attack San Miguel El Grande and

then Guanajuato. Armed with the

loot, the mob It will become an

army. Do you believe in victory? I believe

in the cause. Victory. Be

certain that neither you nor I will see it.

savor the

triumph,

keep in mind, Mr. Allende, that

neither you nor I are any longer on the margins of

history, that order of arrest issued

by my good friend Mayor Riaño

actually places us from today,

September 15, 1810, within it, it

will not be for Also, while they come to

arrest us,

let's review that story in which we are

going to

Who really are the characters

in the first chapter of this drama is not

Cortés the winner nor Cuautemoc the

defeated, they are the prologue the drama

begins with the first slave subjected to the

yoke of the first European who, without

even being a conqueror, claims to

satisfy his greed all the

privileges of what was then called

the right of conquest and which in

reality was not as it was not even It

will never be anything other than the right of

force. Let us imagine how the

events occur. Not 10 years have passed since

Hernan Cortés consummated the conquest

of the kingdoms of Anahuak. The conqueror

has gone to Spain to defend himself from the

intrigues of which he is victim Charles V

has not yet thought of appointing a birrey of

New Spain, he is governed by an

integral board of men who are guided by nothing

other than their greed and thirst for

power, the first mestizos have already been born,

the idols of a bloody religion have been torn down.

a

new city is built on the ruins of

ancient

Atlán attributed to Hernán Cortés and

published in 1524 in Nuremberg in a

Latin edition of some of

Cortés' letters can the imagination revive

men and events

in the great Valley of Mexico there is a lake and

near this shore an islet on

which the great city of the Aztecs was built.

Three roads built on

the water connect the city with the mainland

and a fourth road advances towards the

albarradas on any given night of the

year.

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dare not do any harm in giving

the offering to your father yourself, who for him is

no longer his daughter

since Dmir at his side Shun knows that it is

hate and not love that is who treats the

white Lord, I would like to know. I wait

here, I will enter before you to find out if he

wants to

see you. Since the white man subjugated us,

the festivals of Shel have no

splendor, how long has it been since the

birth of our

prince's son said to himself? Since the last

sun,

Lord, your most beloved daughter has come to

bring you the

offering. She has died for my heart since

she gave hers to the stranger. You well

know that it was not without repugnance. A

single night at the side of a man appeases

the repugnance of any woman is

outside wait for your words that the

loneliness of shune's heart is only

populated by the desire for

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revenge

and she

said

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ah

captain Pedro de Alonso you have already

forgotten the festival of the Indians And

do you think it's just a party, he said,

it was a dinner to assassinate, the

Indians have gone without weapons, but with

Caberos jewels, let's defend the

king, there's no reason for you to treat mine like that.

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what do you have, he hurt me,

do you want to

tell me that now all the harm he

does to me will be done to him

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he

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what screams are

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those [

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B

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a

What weapon you have the Cross in your hand

the white man was going to kill and he

stopped before it my cross is stronger

than his

sword Why Because it is the symbol of

God who

can do everything you must know him believe in him love him

you are good because you have the soul of a child

and God loves simple men like

you go to the convent of Tlaltelolco and you

will hear me tell about his

life what job do you have I am a tegedor of

Tule God was a carpenter and poorer than

you poorer

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speak then Fray Martín With the blessing of your

honor our Bishop Fray Juan de

Sumárraga I come to ask this royal

audience to interpose His authority in a more energetic way

to avoid

excesses of the drunken soldiery, I beg

Freay Martín to consider his words.

Last night's massacre, your excellence, has filled

every measure. It is not with useless slaughter

or robbery that we who

call ourselves civilizers can win

this indigenous race for the greatness of

Spain and our true religion,

there is no reason for these Indians to be

treated like beasts. Fray

Martín forgets that we encomenderos have asked

His Holiness Pope Paul for

these Indians to be considered as

irrational, that is, as beasts. If

Frey Martín likes this

word more, a monstrous request that is

in conflict with Christian truth and

that only seeks to relieve your

conscience of the horrors that commit

conflict that it is not the bishop of Mexico

who is going to resolve it but the supreme

authority of the pope With pardon from Fray

Juan, this is not the point under

discussion. Does Captain Pedro de

Alonso have something to say against the charge

that Fray Martín has made against him? Yes,

last night's massacre was not to prevent the

celebration of a party, but rather the explosion

at this hour. Frt speaking is

certainly Thanks to our swords and

not to their

teachings, the captain claims that

there was a conspiracy, a conspiracy

of men without Hermes. You have some

proof that there were no weapons.

found any weapon as the

perpetrators of the massacre, Fray Martín points out

to Captain Pedro Alonso and his men,

what goal does Fray Martín pursue by preparing

records like these, to base my petition so that

justice is done by stripping

Captain Pedro Alonso and by withdrawing the

encomienda, let a friar not attempt to teach

this authority how to do

justice. I want to remind the president

of this royal audience of the title of

protector of the Indians that His Majesty

has granted us. I ask your honor to

allow me to read the text of the document. royal

corresponding read

brother to the president oidores of our

royal audience of New Spain to the

venerable Fray Juan de sumárraga bishop

of Mexico and to the devout fathers Prior and

Guardians of the monasteries of San

Francisco and tlaltelolco we recommend and

order that you prohibit that no

person can make war on the Indians

kill do harm captivate as slaves

penalty of the loss of all their property

and parcels signed by Charles V king of

Spain and emperor of Germany we did not

need to be reminded the text of

that royal document made the accusation by

the ecclesiastical authorities, this

civil authority will instruct Captain

Pedro de Alonso in a trial to

clarify his guilt in the

recorded events, the degree of it and the

punishment I

believe that all this will be nothing more than

a new falsehood. The fight between the

authorities and us takes on

alarming proportions every day. You know that

our letters to the king are already confiscated. Father

Motolini has spoken with me about going to

Spain to present before the Court the

made out of voice, this request of the

encomenderos before his holiness to

declare human beings irrational beasts

indicates how far they are

willing to take things. If

heaven does not come our help, we are

lost,

I assume that Don Pedro de Alonso will

not lose his encomiendas with some

formality we have to deceive these frils

This will be the reason for a new letter from

FR Juan to His Majesty I assure you that it is

the last time that I will allow them

to interfere in our

affairs

well our prince teaches his son

the path of revenge Yes all the

princes of an would have been like junel

the foreigner would never have subdued us

sir it is time for the

Council

we are all attentive to your word Say

junel what you have to say plotting the

conspiracy with our Ally the lord

of ascaposalco We only need to set the

day to kill the

white men. Issin proposes the day of the great

festival because it will bring together thousands of

our people. A festival would give a pretext for

another massacre. The white priest

protects us since he defended us against

his own, he does not defend us. the one who

destroys our gods, let's choose the

night of the Third Tiangis of Tral Telolco. We

will have time to send the

Order to the last house. You say well,

no one will suspect the usual

trade. Let's go on the killing spree.

Everyone can hide the weapon in the

goods that I carry I want to remind you

Junel of the oath taken to kill

our children If the conspiracy

fails I swear by that God who listens to me to

know how to set an example the whole people will

follow you the couriers are at their posts

we have them hidden on the road sent

to the Lord decalco be within two

hours the

message LL light my message to

Mr.

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B

sir the envoy of

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Jun

Sun sends me to say that he has chosen the

night of the Third Tianguis to launch

into the

slaughter of

my

slaves Do something for yourself they What can

I do? I would like to know it myself.

Don't mark them. At

least

I need those Indians and I'll take them

tomorrow. I'll get the

signature of the president of the Royal

Audience as much as possible. I'll do it like this, captain. If it's

necessary to release a little gold, have

it. good task awaits you I have more fun with

an Indian blacksmith than one with

horses

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How many this time 26 captains who

mark them right now in the face of

accomplished facts Nuño de Guzmán will have no

choice but to

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sign

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as you see, sir, they are finishing the

last of the Pet that you told me to

do

here. [Music] Tejedor is the one who spoke the other

night with the white priest, tell him

when he finishes his day, si qui in his

Palace to those who have dealings with the

that destroy our gods I will do it

sir Come now where the women spin the

cotton [Music] you have been

looking towards the

road to Telolco for a long time now he told you he would come

and

your wife will come the fever makes her sweat a

lot since You talked to the

white priest You have a different look in your

eyes It's just that now I see the cross

everywhere and you say that your God was a

carpenter and poorer than us

Yes, beautiful uncle, wouldn't you come My house

is so far from yours and it's been a long time

since On the hills the

evening star stopped shining with the cross in his

hand there is no distance and the same is the

day and the night

Ben my wife is very sick and my uncle

believes he is going to

die if so you must believe too

on the cross and if you die you will be happy in

the other life that is

eternal we believe in your God

because we believe in you if you are good and

protect us he must be like you if I

am good as you believe it is because I live

imitating the life of that God and

repeating his

words

now I understand your

truth our

priests never taught us what you

say Give me the water that cleanses our

faults and makes us

good bring me some

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water you are going to change your

name call yourself

Juan Juan

Diego Juan in my language means the

chosen Juan

Diego I baptize you in

patri holy spirit

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amen

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the day is approaching and I am afraid no

woman should be afraid you will see how

a child fills the void in your arms

so many things have happened before my eyes that

yesterday when I fell asleep watching The

herons I had a happy or

unfortunate dream I saw myself crying until

I felt choked by my own

tears, tell me, you who have seen them, what

the children of the other slaves of

the white people are like, different from ours In

what, in the color of their skin? Maybe it's

white like theirs, no. So like

ours, the color of mud, it's neither

white nor dark, it's clear like

cinnamon, how strange all this is,

you know,

kiwi, sir, I've never known what difference

there is, kwi is the rain, yochi, the flower,

so you. Your name is rain flower

Lord, why are you laughing because suddenly

I thought that none of my people know that

you have such a

beautiful name rain flower

Why do you hate my race so much

Lord I don't know maybe why life has been

so bitter for me so

sterile And if it were no longer sterile What do

you

mean that a creature already lives inside me?

What are you saying, a son, a son of

your blood and my race, and I'm afraid that

you

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are not

sad, tata. Martin said that when

she dies, she would be

happy.

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in the name of God Pedro Alonso I come

to demand the freedom of the Indians that

you wanted to be held captive in the name of God

Fray Martín the king has legally given me

the encomienda of those natives so that

they cristianis not so that you treat them

like beasts of burden How do you understand the

assignment you are an educator I am a

soldier I did not take care of my affairs

since I do not take care of

yours I offer you a pact Pedro

Alonso which you hand over to the Indians and

I withdraw tomorrow I accept my accusation before the

audience

There they are taken

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the loses

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yes

Alonso here they are marked forever

and yes despite this infamy

God deigns to separate you from eternal damnation

be your damnation in this life h

on each of these foreheads marked a

remorse from which you cannot free

Although you lack eyes to

look at them that he who kills iron with iron

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dies

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you saw the child, you saw something strange like me,

not a word, no one, it

will be quite unfortunate for him to know it so that

this is going to be said everywhere

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Oh

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won't be able to carry your duffel bags And

mine is a lot of burden, you carry them

Why shouldn't you

carry them with this brand no one will be able to

see me in the

sunlight making me useless for

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it's always too late for me go

to the

tiangco noo these pates We will have to

eat now the rainy weather is coming

if the night catches me I will sleep in the

plaza of telolco so tomorrow I will be able to see

tata Martín Tell tata Martín that

Bernardino blesses him incessantly for

having returned his son to him.

God go with you

son

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what was it that revealed that the lord of

Azcapozalco and another prince of Mexico

who could not say who he was heads the

conspiracy captain to arrest the Lord

I say I send notice to the encomenderos without

time I start the surveillance of the

camps

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What is happening Captain Juan de Alborn

sends me to tell you that the Indians are They are

preparing for a massacre this same

night another conspiracy one of

ours surprised a slave of the

encomienda giving another the Slogan.

Interrogated by Don Juan he denied everything

but in the end the torture made him

speak

if the conspiracy has been discovered

we have no other choice The remedy is to launch ourselves

into the massacre, sir, we are the weakest.

If you do not want to be a

slave, all the couriers are at their

posts, they all carry my message. It is possible

that all the paths of

your light legs are guarded, depending on their

destiny

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H

let's go back Well, to the palace To wait for the

night, the Ally, Mr. Galco, will come when

the evening star shines

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Take this message

to

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flee if I do not want to be a slave and

you say that you do not know who sent me this

message I see that You don't believe me and I'm only looking to

save your

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life but head the

conspiracy here for half an hour I'll bring it to you I

've already told you captain we don't know who the

leader is I guess you already know that

your protégés threaten us with a

general massacre what do you have to say

now do you know who is at the head of the rebellion

you do not know Yes his name I demand

conditions Which first the life of the

prisoner will be respected and second the

prisoner will remain under the asylum of the convent

of Tral Telolco you are a traitor to the king

FR Martín, it is not the time to impose

conditions. If I try to prevent them from

killing you like a dog, Captain, I don't see why you

don't also want to prevent

your vengeance from being inflicted on my prisoner.

about

the situation I accept your conditions

FR Martín it is not time to

argue captain

order put yourself with your soldiers under the

orders of FR

Martí I

did it to save you sir he

promised me to respect your life I answer

for it inviolable element you will be my

prisoner there it is not life What I want to

save but my people, I have fulfilled what I

was obliged to do in defense of My

city and I have not been able to do more and since

I am forcibly imprisoned before your

person, do whatever you want with me, take my

dagger and Kill me I do not come to

kill you but to save your life I also do it

in defense of your city and your

people because you and I before God are

brothers Take me but leave

my son free let me see him for the last

time [

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Oh

I will be a slave but you will

never

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that slaughter must

Cesar you are free

siúil Look at this open door go out through

it and go tell your people that such

horror we have exhausted all the resources

without achieving

anything, you say nothing like in a fortress you

have taken refuge in that silence that

condemns us I know you suffer a lot but now you

need to do something to prevent

more blood from flowing I offer you

freedom in exchange

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for not letting it go just a moment and CBR

well your forehead that your master never

discovers that mark is useless my effort

how to hide what is so visible do

what I

tell you what fault did he commit to be born

marked come in

son tell me Juan

Diego tata Martín I can't sleep

thinking about the evil that I have done you, you have not

done any wrong, we men never know,

for God allows

things like this to happen, I myself asked him now

to enlighten me and show me what

my brothers and I should do to

protect yours, one thing I want to

ask you,

tata leave free at

busot from his cell it is he who wants to be

a prisoner of himself Take me to where he

is I want to ask him to forgive me Come

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with me

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convent is not inviolable Who has been

tell me his name the hand of the white man who

made my

vassals slaves you are going to die

I know I have a remorse that

your daughter hugs me

Tell her that I die forgetting the sadness in

her

eyes and

taking with me her girlish laughter that I will never

be able to

forget I will

tell her And now listen to me if she believes in me

God before whom the crime they have

committed with you will cry out for revenge is a

God of love but also of justice

believe in him as Juan Diego and thousands of

your people believe I can no longer believe in your

God because I do not

understand him My God Give him

faith no I believe in

him

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warn you, Fray Juan de Zumarraga, that

if you have demanded that this royal

audience meet to dispense

justice for the death of the conspirator

Indio, we will not tolerate any accusation

that is not based on a witness

other than

Martín, divine providence. He has

dictated to you as president of the hearing

even before I have spoken the

words of Justice that I sought for the

punishment of Captain Don Pedro de Alonso,

identified as the author of the crime. There

is my

witness, that is him. Indian that

they say Diego the words

of the said he murdered the hand that I slave

to my

glasses he is Indian he is a false witness another

ard of FR Martín to lose me and with me

to all of you I support the protest of the

captain the majesty Charles V cannot

tolerate since he is become a victim of an

imposture like this while Fray Juan and

Fray Martín and that Indian lie, if I

consented to this accusation, Mr.

President of the hearing, I am leaving.

But before leaving the room,

listen to me, Mr. Judge, with your

investiture that his holiness Paul the

Third and our sovereign King Charles

V have granted me as the first bishop of

Mexico to Captain Don Pedro de Alonso

who violated the immunity of our

convent And to you who stand up against

the sacred oath that I have taken

solely to conceal the crimes

committed I make you guilty of communion for

which I declare you outside the church and

you Don Nuño de Guzmán as president

of the audience and Supreme authority of

New Spain take note that I

declare Mexico City in question

while the crime committed has not been punished

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and

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so ch

ki

sir look at him tell me if you see on his

forehead what I

see you

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marked it

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[Laughs]

H

tell the Captain that I'm coming to talk to

him, there he is again. Drunk, it's not

that he's drunk, it's more like he

's bewitched, it's India. The one who

has it like this, I wouldn't be surprised if she

had given him a drink, it's not India,

she follows him like a

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[Laughs]

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no

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Oh

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ah

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give me a

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light It's serious doctor, the burn has

surely affected the optical centers you will

see again

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ah since Dad Martín left On the other

side of the sea you are sad he tells us He

protected and abandoned us, he did not abandon us, he

went to ask for us his King, the most

powerful on

earth, lie down again and see if

that pain that you have leaves you. Yes,

son,

and so I do not think it is necessary to accumulate in this

my true story to your Sacred

Majesty. the acts of horror and

injustice committed in the person of

these Indians by each and every one of

those captains to whom your Sacred

Majesty has given the title of endos and

even by the hearers themselves headed

by Nuño de Guzmán to whom you have

entrusted the government of blood-soaked

New Spain, Captain Don

Hernando Cortés may tomorrow be a victim, like

our bishop, of the intrigues of The

royal audience to say whether I am lying or exaggerating,

even Mexico City is in

question because the excesses of such

men have reached the audacity to

violate the impunity that your majesty

granted to our first convent of

Tlaltelolco, what should we expect from a

despotism that has gone so far as to promote

before his holiness that they declare themselves

irrational, that is to say beasts to the

Indians so that they cannot be baptized

and to you majesty what by their own

will and by order of Fray Juan de

Sumarraga our Bishop I have come to

fulfill I pray to God to enlighten them

for the good government of those

lands that he has

entrusted to you do not need the testimony of

Don Hernando Cortés named by my

authority Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca

to believe in the truth of the words

of Fray Martín, they come only to

corroborate the inclination that

my mind has taken to name a king of New

Spain whose designation during my trip

to Flanders I will leave to Queen Isabel

and above all to urge the newly

appointed Council of the Indies to put an end to the

study of the first laws that govern

the government of the natives and

protect them from the exploitation

and injustice of the

encomenderos regarding the requests

that Fray Juan de Zumárraga has made before me

and that I will now ratify as his

representative and that They refer to the

founding of a school for

indigenous children in the convent of Santiago

tral Telolco, to the founding of a

university in Mexico similar to that

of Salamanca, and to the introduction of a

printing press and a paper mill in

New Spain assured to Fray Juan,

I will make the necessary donations of my assets as soon as possible

so that

your wishes are truly carried out, which are truly

mine also

at this moment in history. The fate

of the man of America is cast. He will be a

slave or his descendants will be free men.

They will be able to one

day create a nationality or they will continue until the

end of the centuries to be pariahs of a

race and a class that consider themselves

privileged. Born in these lands and

mixed or not with white blood,

they will be able to one day govern themselves

and have all the rights and privileges

of free men

or remain at the service of the

privileges of a conqueror whoever he

may be who judges himself

superior by the color of his

superior skin because in one case the skin is

white and in the other it is

brown. behold captain of the drama anag

and America, the whole word American,

that is, man from America, compared to the

word European, already has a clear

meaning, a sense of and of freedom.

Washington has already freed the

North Americans from the

North Europeans. The South Americans

already glimpse their freedom, we now

intend to free the Americans of

these anaguat lands from the Europeans

of Castile, Andalusia or any

other region of Europe that

ever tries to subject us under the pretext

that they have white skin that is brown

like me. says the Indian Juan Diego when he

describes the virgin that he

meets in the tepellac, behold, her

brothers and her descendants throughout

the centuries have seen in her as I

see it now, a symbol of equality and

redemption, a flag that will go forging

a nationality and forging a Homeland and

herself on the hill calls the Indian

son the most humble of my children If

heaven decides one thing why does man

intend to decide

another let's follow phrase by phrase the

oldest relationship of the event the relationship of

that another Indian Antonio valeriano And

who is that Indian Mr. Hidalgo, that

indigenous historian contemporary of

Juan Diego educated at the school in Tral

Lolco and whose authentic account

the illustrious historian Don

Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora claims to have seen, here it is

translated from Naguat into Spanish

word for

word

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At that time, in the year

1531, a few days into the month of December,

it happened that there was an Indian named

Juan Diego, reportedly a native of

Cuautitlán. It was early Saturday morning. and he

came to tral telolco in pursuit of the

divine message. When he arrived next to the hill

called tepellac, it dawned and he heard singing

above the hill, it sounded like the song of

several birds. After a while, the voices

of the singers fell silent and it seemed that the mountain was

responding to them

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of my children Come closer to

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me

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Where are you going ju

diey or go to tata Juan's mass

Who are you the mother of the

true God and I want to be your mother and

that of your brothers and that of all those

on this earth who come to me with their

lamentations and their

miseries Tell me girl and what can I do

as your son I want a temple in this

place so that he Let all my

children come in search of consolation, I am the

poorest girl and a temple follows your

path when you arrive in the city. Look for

the bishop and tell him what you have seen and

what you have heard and tell him that I

sent you, I will go to fulfill your command.

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girl

but the girl had a white tunic with

a blue not tata green cloak full of

stars and she was on the moon

but her skin was white not

brown like mine It's

okay another day you will come and I will listen to you more

slowly come back for today to your house as

you wish and send this

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cover what your honor thinks of

this Indian's fantasy. I am surprised by the

sincerity and conviction of his story.

Your honor is not going to believe that the Virgin

Mary appears on a hill at a Indian

like this and precisely in the figure of

an indigenous adolescent, although the judgments

of God are inscrutable, I believe that what

this Indian has had is a dream, he

believes it to be a reality, in his good faith, he has already

believed it is his duty to come and

tell me, let's forget the matter. and let's go

to the south of the city where I plan to

build a convent dedicated to our

father Francisco de Asís

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a

girl I went to fulfill your order,

Tata Juan heard me but he didn't

believe me So I told you I ask that you entrust your

message to someone who is known and

respected, listen, Juan Diego, I would not

lack principal envoys to whom to

give my

assignment. But because you are the poorest

of my children, I want precisely that

you be the one who requests in my name that

the temple that Here I want Don't think

that the road is difficult for me, I will go tomorrow to

fulfill your

will and when the sun sets I

would come to give you the reason for

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everything

comes in

so wait brother your honor wants us

to leave you alone this time again

the Indian in the

story He insists that

our holy mother appears to him. He insists on the

apparition that it is built and on the

Tepeyac Hill itself. We would have a good job if

we built the temples on the hills.

I believe that this Indian is one

of many witches. So let's not leave

him alone. Your honor, don't be afraid, brother,

it's not a

big deal, not only because of your talk, I'm going to believe

in what you say, the lady asks you,

tell her to give you some directions so that I

can believe that she is the one who sent you. and

what are the directions that you want me to

ask for? She will know how to

choose them herself and now go back to your house in peace.

What's happening? No, most illustrious, that we follow him

this time, there is no

conviction that he puts in his story that

I begin to believe in him if we follow him.

We will know Who he is Where he lives What he

does God forgive me like Saint Thomas

for my lack of faith ID then brothers and

see what

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does

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H

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Look, he has stopped and seems to be talking to

someone, you see Something

extraordinary,

nothing,

girl, I don't see it anymore, it suddenly disappeared

and so did I. And then he told me to

ask you for some directions so that he

could believe in my words. Let's go,

brother, and I'll see

what happens, come. Well, tomorrow, this same

place and I will give you the directions they

ask for and I'm leaving because it's late and Uncle

Bernardino is

sick. Here he was And suddenly I

decidedly stopped seeing him, this Indian is a

witch

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don't get so close FR Martín, you are at

risk of

contagion since our captain

admitted this poor black man to Cuba,

saying that someone was already

infected with that plague that devastated the

island. Forgive me for leaving you half of the

story of a Basque, but there was an attempt

by the crew. And for what reason? the

people are scared by the

black's illness the black's illness a matter of hours

captain one slave

less what

happens to you nothing is nothing slavery in

New Spain Fray Martín reaches the

proportion with which you

pave it as a member of the new government of

those lands You will now have the opportunity to

feel and I hope to God to

destroy it, given the reputation that

your virtues

and your high sense of

Justice have achieved in the kingdom, I pray to God that for the work

that has been entrusted to you and that

you will undoubtedly carry out in those

virgin lands, may your name survive, Don

Vasco de Quiroga, as an example of

civilizers.

And what

have you

infected? That's what I'm

afraid of [Music] FR Martín wants to

talk to you, I'm going to die Don Vasco, no such

thing

When I left for Spain I asked God

to allow me to see my

Indians again. During the entire trip, I came with the

anxiety of seeing those lands

that I love

so much. God does not want to grant it to me.

How many days do we still have to go on the

journey? We are already close. Father,

I will take you under cover so that you can

see Earth. I will

not die without seeing

them again. That is why I have sent for you

so that if

my Indians ask you about Fray

Martín, you can tell them that he died thinking about

each one of

them. I die knowing that You will do for

my

Indians what I could not do, I will do everything

in my power, I

promise you, viv tol

petlac, someone named Juan

Diego, tell him, look at

him,

say

what have you, Juan Diego, I see you worried

and today you have been there motionless, looking at

the

hills the

hills

Yes and you promised me to go today for Fray

Juan I don't want to I can't go today Remember

that I already feel like dying and I want to

confess

I would go Juan Diego but you know why I

can't

do it

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Oh

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Oh

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How did you wake up

Girl, what are you afraid of me Juan Diego Why did

you cross the

hill because my uncle is very sick and I'm going

to Atal Telolco to look for a priest who

will confess it, I'm not deceiving you,

girl, early tomorrow I will come for the

directions that you want me to Take it, it's

not me, health, you're not under my

shadow, don't be afflicted by your uncle's illness

and believe that at this moment he is already

healthy, I

believe it. Give me, girl, the directions that you

want me to take, go up to the top of the

hill where you will find cut many roses,

gather them in your tilma and take them

to the bishop and tell him that by the signs of those

roses he will see that it is my will build

here the temple that I have asked for I will go up for

the roses

girl only that in this time I will not

find anything but nopales and

mesquites Don't you see that the cold freezes the

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flowers

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am

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ah

where are you going Here I bring the directions for

tata

Juan

wait

Sit down,

tata

Juan, here are the signs you asked for,

give them to me Well,

here

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they are

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from that moment on and During the

almost centuries of Spanish domination, the

man born in these lands is that of

the indigenous On the one

hand, the Creole and the mestizo On the

other hand, we have seen in Guadalupana something

that belongs to us and that from a

political point of view synthesizes the

common aspiration for independence of the

European that today continues to enjoy

rights and privileges that cannot be to

endure, don't think about it anymore, Mrs.

Allende,

if we have to provide the

insurgent movement with a flag that synthesizes

all the aspirations, that flag

cannot be other than the image of the

Virgin of

Guadalupe. I already forgot that I am

invited to the gathering of the subdelegate

Don. Nicolás Fernandes del Rincon, but

you plan to go, Mr. Hidalgo, and why haven't

you already forgotten that there is an

arrest warrant against us? I haven't

forgotten, Captain, I was thinking of going to the

gathering because in the house of the

subdelegate Don Ignacio d Corina,

tax collector, and since on the one

hand we need money for the cause and

on the other, the tax is the people's money,

we can take it over

and later we will return it

handsomely to the people

themselves. I see all of this very clearly but I

also see that perhaps right now

there are Soldiers of the Kingdom on the

same streets of pain willing to

arrest you the moment you

show your nose. That is just an

assumption and mine is a reality. I

leave him at his house and then I go to

Mr. Fernández's gathering. Let's see if I find out

where Mr. Dz Cortina has stored

the funds from the

collection. At this time, more than

ever, they can be extremely useful to us in

a given case. I called, Mr. Cur. Tell

Shelter that prepares dinner only for

Mr. Capit and not for you, Mr. Priest,

Mr.

Fernández from the

corner of you, my capito, is not going to feed me dinner. It is true that

Captain F. had pain yesterday, my captain is

looking for Mr. Priest

Hidalgo. you a horse because the command

miit

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ah

don't

open it is one of ours captain since you

know the

sign who is calling captain

Aldama Good night captain Good

night What's happening I bring serious news

let's go in to talk eight in your place nu

in yours nu de blow a moment nine

of contrapor rzo

and 10 ace two

4 and s of clean but sir priest

You have lost madam the best idea

of ​​the night you will not say that

I have no ascendants over my husband I have

obtained the sir priest the 300 pesos

that you want as a loan and for

proof, here is the key to the chest. Do

you want to come with me, sir, priest, or would you

prefer that I bring them here? It would be

too demanding on my part. Almoner and

with a

club, take me, well, where is

that money

with the Your permission Let's go,

Mr.

Priest, I have never seen Mr. Priest in

such a good mood and as witty as

Ho. I have been told that

collecting the tax causes a lot of work for your husband.

Don't believe it, Mr. Priest. Good

amount with your motto. tax it is

paid or it is paid Yes I see it Melo you are

full I confess that I did not expect

to find a chest of these

dimensions but simply a chest

[Laughter]

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I quote Captain Arias' complaint is cowardly

and according to Mrs. Corregidora's message

he has delivered to the

authorities even the

confidential letters from Mr. Hidalgo to you

that he had in his possession, gentlemen, the

situation is not for

prolonged conferences but for decisive actions,

we are lost, the only recourse

we have left is to go and learn

Gachupines, you two go call

my brother Don Mariano, the organist

Santos Villa, and have someone bring

my workers, the polished ones, Los Alfareros, the

wax workers, and all my people.

What do you plan to do, Mr. Hidalgo,

integrate the first group of insurgents as soon as possible

and then and

then while I with a group go to the

jail and release the prisoners,

you with another group will go to the

subdelegate's house and demand

the tax funds from the collector D curtain

immediately afterward I will

ring the bell of the curate and summon

the

people

and

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ah

long live the Virgin of

Guadalupe long live America and die the bad

government

P

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H

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ah