Comments made by Chávez Miguel Abelardo Michel's book Ahumada, an event verified at the House of Culture of the City of Colima, on Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Friends All
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voice For three reasons, I is pleasantly enjoyable, participating in this table, next to professional scholars and intelligent friends, to share my humble comments, the book, of course, well written and carefully documented, which here and now, us Abelardo Ahumada.
The former is confined to the capital estimate and supportive affection that I linked to the author, the second special emotion, by giving her the opportunity to share with a friend, his commendable effort to publish a new text to its already substantial intellectual creation and publishing, the third, no less important, and certainly the central theme of the work under review, considering this convocation occasion, so that together reflect on the circumstances, contexts, patterns, arguments and pretexts, the sum of events of such socio-political, economic, educational, military, religious and cultural, which occurred in the first third of the nineteenth century, in which people actively participated in the Party then was part Colima of the former Municipality of Guadalajara.
Before entering the field, as a preamble to my gloss, allow me to explain the existence of a significant source document printed in 1911. Indeed, ninety-nine years ago, as part of what they called the "Centenary of the last war Colima for National Independence," the press of the State Government, published in two volumes, the book "Colima and the War of Independence ", select compilation of official and private documents on major political events - that occurred in the military today Free and Sovereign State of Colima, from the Grito de Dolores harangued by Hidalgo in 1910, to the triumphal entry of the army Trigarante to Mexico City in 1821.
This excellent collection, a pioneer in documentary evidence of our micro-history and discreetly, only kept in archives and special libraries was compiled by Don José María Rodríguez Castellanos, renowned archivist Colima and prefaced by the Fr. Aguilar Tiburcio, which is shown, the participation of famous Colima in the armed struggle in comment.
I mention this background literature to recognize Smoked Abelardo diligent professionalism and intellectual honesty point, citing, in their narrative, their information sources, among others, instrumental in the compendium contained above.
Thus, "Colima's participation in the struggle for Independence" is composed of 6 chapters, in which the author, in chronological order, describes, step by step, how was that Colima and its people were involved in local events, regional and national, in which, first, the controversy caused by them to have segregated Valladolid to append to the Municipality of Guadalajara and later, the debate over autonomy to free the nascent state of Jalisco. In his narrative, Abelardo Ahumada, much teaching, contextualized local events in a regional context and, after analysis of the circumstances of the time, he explains, the performance of our countrymen in the process of disappearance of the viceroyalty and the consolidation of Mexico as a country independent.
In this situation, I must analyze the third chapter, "Winds of Freedom", which, with its entertaining style, the author, through his reading, he invites us to explore in greater depth the struggle of our local heroes the documentary sources that support their research, to date, only known by specialists.
Moving in parallel with increased feelings of animosity that some Creoles valued in their own regions, in this chapter, the writer, begins his review with the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and its impact in New Spain. Difficult times and, no less uncertain, fueled for the overthrow of Viceroy Iturrigaray, which exacerbated the winds of independence and had its impact in Nueva Galicia. Consequently, their effects, broke the routine of the inhabitants of Colima.
In this vein, despite the precarious situation of the roads, then, the news, often confused, at a speed record, was known to the inhabitants of Colima. Plot: Just three days after the Queretaro conspiracy discovered on 19 September 1810, Don Roque Abarca, Governor of the Municipality of Guadalajara, sent a letter to Don Juan Linares, deputy representative of Colima, "ordering him to visit ... often mesons to be well aware of who they entered or exited the town, with additional instruction to perform night patrols with the police and report any suspicious person or movement ... "
Similarly, following instructions from above, local authorities, set used in public places the first orders of the Governor of Guadalajara against the movement started by Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
addition, to fighting insurgents with similar mandates, the Sub-delegate and Commander Juan Francisco Linares Guerrero del Espinal, received orders to organize six companies, plus a Coahuayana to integrate Colima militias which in turn form part of the South second division of the Administration of Guadalajara.
Although vague, it must have been great diversity of views that led to this information, on the one hand, and mainland authorities, mostly with extraordinary speed organized to defend their privileges. On the other, with the same urgency, were activated the consciences of animosity against the colonial regime, mainly among those who, with caution, they were unhappy the oppressive system.
that regard, I quote the author: "... With this type of news and order ... it is easy to imagine the curses that is caused among those who were being invited to take up arms and those who were required to provide the necessary resources for gunpowder and supplies ... "(concludes the quote).
example above, with a brief letter, dated September 30, 1810, Pedro Regalado Llamas, informed his father Don Francisco Covarrubias, who went to war or company to lead us ", whereupon the author notes, the why, the famous Colima, three months later, he joined the ranks of the insurgency.
comparable situation, must have experienced the English Don Francisco Guerrero del Espinal, who, to keep a presence quiet and full of privileges, authorities and civilians exempted him just because of administration, since 1792, the estates owned by the heirs of Count Rule Don Pedro Romero de Terreros, perhaps, from another perspective, also was forced to take up arms, where, soon after lost his life.
This local aspect, the guarantors of the existing order, in addition to the preparations for the defense of Colima, the first of October 1810, under the command of Don Francisco Espinal Guerrero, left the town of Colima, on the way to Guadalajara carrying about 500 men. While in the region, continued to ecclesiastical censures and dissemination of excommunication against Father Hidalgo and his followers.
turn, with different orientation, addicts Father José Antonio Díaz, to analyze the facts and according to their subsequent confession "... to defend the king ...", their homes, their land and their families, Sunday October 7, Pedro José Guzmán, "Mayor of the Republic of Indians Almoloyan" met with leaders of the people and scribe "Juan Santos Cruz" and resolved to send messages to their "... blood of the peoples of Comala Zacualpan Juluapan, Coquimatlán, Tecomán, Tamala, and Cautlán Ixtlahuacán to meet two days later, begging, that each of the villages should come accompanied by two or three assistants .... " The mail was intercepted in Juluapan, what environment, that same day, will be verified a second meeting in the cemetery of the former convent of San Francisco. To thwart a possible rebellion, participants were apprehended and subsequently, through the Father Francisco Vicente Ramírez de Oliva, were left free but under surveillance.
Equidistant to the events taking place in Colima, Hidalgo Father José Antonio Torres commissioned Alias \u200b\u200b"The Master" to rise up in arms "... the people of Colima and the region of Sayula and Zacoalco ..." In turn, in Guadalajara, the authorities established the Higher Council of Government, Security and Defence, whose main purpose was to protect the city and attack the rebel groups sprang up around the west of the viceroyalty.
Following the triumphs insurgents in Sahuayo, between 4 and 6 November, "The master Torres' defeat at the battle of the regiment Zacoalco named" crusade ", organized by Bishop Cabañas, where the recruits realistic Colima, scored very poorly delivered.
Meanwhile, the November 8, 1810, following instructions from his father, José Antonio Torres (Jr.) and Rafael Arteaga easily took the town of Colima, misma que fue recuperada por el ejército virreinal en abril de 1811, sin que se disparara un solo tiro. Durante el eventual dominio de los insurgentes en Colima, se integraron a la causa muchos paisanos que llegaron a figurar como cabecillas, entre otros Manuel Regalado (tío de Pedro Regalado), José Calixto Martínez, Ignacio Sandoval, el Lego Gallaga, el Cura José María Venegas, Cadenas, Fermín Ortiz y Antonio Béjar.
Invitándolos a recrearse en la lectura de este excelente libro, por razones de tiempo, no me detendré en los variados incidentes que se presentaron durante la corta estancia de los insurrectos en Colima y su fatal desenlace. Corresponderá a mis compañeros comentaristas glosarles the triumphal entry of the insurgents to Guadalajara, his defeat at the bridge of Calderon and the widespread dispersal of the insurgents.
Before closing my remarks, in conclusion, allow me a brief reflection:
Thanks to the vision fair and conciliatory Abelardo Ahumada, that as a good academic, without bias, and moreover, without insult or cheer with adjectives persuasive, the actors of one or the other, with professionalism original, only the clarity of the evidence reviewed, in his narrative, is concretized the objective analysis of the facts, contexts and circumstances.
Therefore, reading this text, I understood with clarity, that the war of independence was not only destruction and death, of one or other, but also to promote social disruption prevailing, it was a movement generating feelings of identity and belonging, where they germinated varied collective imagination , that in light of the time, gave the mother country and freedom.
Initially, with various inclinations, all agreed to fight for Fernando VII. The realistic, focused their complaints to preserve their privileges peninsular origin, the insurgents fought to extinguish the differences that separated them from the mainland, the more that either joined or were recruited from either side through the fight were accentuating their ethnic or geographic origin, to become aware of freemen.
So, sooner or later, some first and others later, in harmony with their approaches, needs, insights, time and political tenets of the era, along hostilities were gradually cementing the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding an "American nation" and thus genuine feelings were strengthened independence, which led to the Mexican nation.
the foregoing, friends Abelardo, commentators and the general public.
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