By Heriberto Frias
This is the latest quantity in Oxford's acclaimed Library of Latin the USA sequence. Tomochic is the fictitious narration of the army crusade which in October 1892 ended in the bloodbath of the small village of Tomochic, ordered through the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Diaz. The paintings is narrated through an eyewitness, the then moment lieutenant Heriberto Frias, and written via him in collaboration with Joaquin Clausell, editor of the newspaper which released it in serial shape in 1983.
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How to prove to Clausell that Tomochic hadn’t come from his pen? Literature re-creates with authority without the obligation of looking at things the way they really happened. Clausell’s sources were verifiable—it was enough to take a glance at the press in the capital. What’s to be done, Frías’s military investigators would have asked themselves, when even the official Chihuahua State paper published a war dispatch signed by General Rosendo Márquez? The references to Zola must have meant little to the law, but that didn’t make Clausell’s idea any less plausible.
9. Information on the anti-reelection demonstrations comes from “La manifestación antirreeleccionista de los estudiantes,” Diario del Hogar (April 8, 1893), and the quotation on the Gabriel González Mier episode and the rest of the biographical information come from “Centenario del nacimiento de la libertad en Francia, 1793–1893—Mexico. Centenario de la libertad de pensamiento en el mundo moderno. ” Diario del Hogar, June 25, 1893. 10. “El Demócrata,” El Monitor Republicano, February 1, 1893. 11.
The battalion adjutant had ordered Miguel to report immediately to the barracks across the street from the inn. Mercado was stunned to discover that half the battalion was leaving by train for Chihuahua that very night. Miguel asked no questions, however, and a few hours later, in a train compartment crammed with sol- O 8 diers and their gear, he was traveling at top speed as the train devoured kilometers at an impossible rate. Dumbfounded, he listened to the clap, clap of the iron wheels on the rails whenever the sliding door opened in a cold flash of noise and shadows.