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Get Started. Like Demetrio, these men vow to show the federals their anger and frustration by ambushing them. In an ambush that was to surprise the federal troops, Demetrio is wounded but not before many of his men were able to killed many federals.
Moving slowly due to his bullet wound on one of his legs, Demetrio learns first hand what peasants are going through with the dreadful federals. Demetrio is praised for joining a force that will fight against a group of men that are constantly stealing and leaving them in very poor conditions. According to the mountain folk, the serranos, many of them were hiding to avoid being drafted, their livestock was being stolen, their only food source corn was being taken away, and they were taken women away.
Once they depleted everything that they had, they would then finish them off like mad dogs 8. It was these atrocities that were making men like Demetrio hate so much the federal troops. Guero Margarito killed an old women for not selling him a plate of enchiladas, killed a shoekeeper for giving him Huerta bills in change, and killing a man only because he kept running into him at the same table, at the same time for lunch Guero seem to be the worst of the men in that he even shot a boy on the ear when he used him as target shooting It very obvious that Mariano was capturing the effects of the revolution at a level of the peasant not mentioned in reports or stories of Villa and Zapata.
The killing of federal soldiers and innocent people were not crimes being committed by the revolutionaries. Looting and stealing was become a major problem for them. It was splitting their groups. Sign Up. Sign In. View the Study Pack. View the Lesson Plans. Plot Summary. Part I, I - IV. Part II, V - X. Free Quiz.
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