The presentation of the 2 nd edition of the books of INAH "Mi Pueblo during the Revolution," coordinated by the friend Alicia Olivera Sedano was held yesterday at 19 hours, at the headquarters of the "Directorate of Historical Studies" INAH, in Tlalpan, an auditorium full and analysts, the event was held with great success.
Four historians, under the chairmanship of the Director and the participation of perhaps short-lived survivor "testimony" live work, discussed the importance of the unique history of the revolution in this country. The multiple views, actions and reactions of "ordinary people" in the conflict, carefully studied and the significance of some of the testimony in the art of surviving in the terrible deeds of 1910 to 1920. It was a confrontation where revolutionaries versus 30.000 100.000 government system faithful to "revolutionize" the rest of the country's population of about 15,000,000 inhabitants at the time.
can not reproduce here the contents of more than 600 pages with photographs and text are not stories, are stories-including the pages of the three volumes of the work, but transcribe pieces of text called "The Hunger made the first volume, in this story a girl "revolutionized" my mother small, "as thousands? "Millions? other children, leaves his home to collect quelites wild public lands to feed their younger siblings and several parents, who lived straits and hardships ... This example represents faithfully the famine conditions prevailing in the years of the Mexican Revolution, this case with similar ones, earned be represented in the "audio" that was dramatized in the case of the Mexican Institute of Radio-IMER-in its series "Revisiting History" in 1987,
Hunger, page 55 1st volume.
"He touched my mother to suffer the anguish of seeing her mother surrounded by children to feed and take care of, but lacking all means. The newspaper noted the death penalty led to a decision: leave the house almost every day of certain months of the year, early in the morning to travel outside the Roma neighborhood to the south and was then open countryside. There quintoniles collected quelites or wearing religiously on the table in your home. One afternoon, returning with his bag full of vegetables, and unknowingly, hunger and death in their way. Just around the corner he saw a mob running towards her neighborhood, one or two hundred people crowded angry and yelling at the entrance to the yellow house with the wooden gate, where she spent daily back home "food, food! Flour, corn! hoarders gachupines Down!" shouted the crowd ... I recalled that in his eyes as a child the facts happened very quickly. Someone had betrayed to the Spaniards in the yellow house as "hoarders" since some time ago and suspected of having in his possession sacks full of rice, flour, beans and sugar ... The shop has long closed, had been boarded up and But everyone in the house of the Spaniards, attached to the store, still healthy, they looked coloraditos, happy ... that strange, because everyone else in the neighborhood are gaunt and sad ... His mind still remembered the shouts of the crowd angry when attacked with stones and pushed the door screaming loudly, while the Spaniards were shooting from the roof into the pile ... "
" The shooting, he recalled, was plucked out of his amazement, he saw Finally, as in the midst of shouting, shoving and entreaties, people got dragged all the bags and ran against household items and even their inhabitants. If you find food ... and lots! A double floor served as a warehouse. Violence and increased crying, and then stopped, unable to look away from the place and paralyzed by a mixture of terror and curiosity, his eyes as a child, my mother saw how were lying in the street four or five bodies mixed with beans and sugar sprinkled on the ground. Some old men pulled the bodies of his feet to pick up more waste of food ... "
" Finally she was able to continue his journey, came home and emptied his bag in the kitchen. He told me without hesitation and despite the hunger, he retired to his room for the rest of the day. For some reason I could not understand, at that time would not eat anything ... "
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ps greatly thank my friend Mrs Dulce María Baizabal I brought in your car to the event referred to above, she and I are celebrating 40 years of friendship. I appreciate further because I do not see or hear satisfactorily the left side of my body ...
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