Eduardo Galeano - The Memory of Fire Trilogy - Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

Surinam, 8, 40, 45

Tabi, 258

Tacuabé (Indian warrior), 144

Támara. 54

Tameme Indians, 86–87

Tampa, 239

Tarabuco, 113

Tarapacá desert, 218, 223, 227

Tarascan Indians, 201

Tarata, 188, 189

Tegucigalpa, 150

Tempú, camp, 209

Teotitlán del Camino, 225

Tepehua Indians, 61–62

Tepeyac sanctuary, 99

Tequendama waterfall, 91

Terán, Francisco Alonso, 86

Texas, 146–47, 148, 160

Texmelucan, 215

Tezmalaca, 108

Thomas, Saint, 96

Thorne, James, 117, 135

Thornton, Edward, 193

Tijuco, 31

Tinta, 58

Titicaca, Lake, 15, 63

Toluca, 68

Tonalá, 68

Torre Tagle, Marquess of, 125

Toussaint L’Ouverture, 76, 91, 93

Trelawny Town, 22

Trinidad, 97

Tristán, Flora, 143, 243

Tubman, Harriet, 193

Tucumán, 51

Tudor, William, 139

Tukan Indians, 89

Tulijá River, 86

Tungasuca, 52, 58

Tunupa (god), 15

Túpac Amaru, 51

Túpac Amaru II, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56–59, 60, 61, 62, 65

Túpac Amaru, Fernando, 60–61, 87

Túpac Amaru, Hipólito, 58, 60

Túpac Catari, 63, 64

Turner, Nat, 192

Twain, Mark, 231–32, 250–51

Uc, Jacinto: see Canek, Jacinto

Umantuu (mermaid), 15

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 192

United Fruit Company, 250

United States Marines, 226

United States of America, 46, 47, 97, 133, 139, 147, 160–61, 169, 173, 185–86, 187, 190–93, 212, 220, 244, 247–48, 250–51

United States Rubber Company, 244

Urquiza, Justo José de, 194

Uruana, 89

Uruguay, 106, 139–40, 144, 162, 193, 194, 234

Uruguay River, 20, 34, 105

Usher, Archbishop, 145

Valencia, 106, 139

Valladolid de Yucatán, 165

Valparaíso, 97, 153, 164, 166, 227

Varela, Felipe, 196

Vasco de Quiroga, Bishop, 101

Vassouras, 206

Venezuela, 82, 97, 106, 107, 114, 120, 122, 138, 139

Veracruz, 94, 97, 153

Versailles, 71

Viana, Francisco Javier de, 116

Victoria, queen of England, 228

Vieira, Antonio, 4

Vigilance Tribunal, 115

Vila Nova do Príncipe, 12

Villagrán, Rasahía, 126–27

Villa of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 161

Villarroel (lawyer), 66–67

Villasana, Eugenio, 108

Villegas, Micaela (La Perricholi), 37, 38

Virginia, 46, 48, 146, 192

Virgin Mary, 14

Virgin of Candelaria, 33

Virgin of Guadalupe, 99, 101

Virgin of Montserrat, 62

Virgin of Remedios, 99

Viricota plateau, 19

Voltaire, 15, 40, 51

Vuelta de Obligado, 160

Walker, David, 192

Walker, William, 178–80, 181

War Bonnet Creek, 213

Washington, D.C., 185, 190, 191, 234, 248, 250

Washington, George, 50

Washington Territory, 178

Washita River, 165

Weld, Theodore, 192

Wells, Ida, 248

Wheeler, John, 180

Whitman, Walt, 177–78

Wild West Show, 251, 252

Williamson, J.G., 139

Windward Indians, 23

Winiger, Joseph, 229

Wolfe, James, 36

Wounded Knee, 232, 233

Wovoka (Indian prophet), 232

Yaqui Indians, 201

Yellow Hand, Chief, 213

Yerbas Buenas, 166

Young, General, 247

Yucatán, 26, 109, 165, 171, 183, 184, 201, 256–57, 258

Zabeth (slave), 42

Zacatecas, 19, 86

Zapotec Indians, 200

Zea, Francisco Antonio, 120

Zipaquirá, 54, 91

Zorrilla, José, 184

In addition to the friends mentioned in Genesis, who continued collaborating through this second volume, many others have facilitated the author’s access to the necessary bibliography. Among them, Mariano Baptista Gumucio, Olga Behar, Claudia Canales, Hugo Chumbita, Galeno de Freitas, Horacio de Marsilio, Bud Flakoll, Piruncha and Jorge Galeano, Javier Lentini, Alejandro Losada, Paco Moncloa, Lucho Nieto, Rigoberto Paredes, Rius, Lincoln Silva, Cintio Vitier, and Rene Zavaleta Mercado.

This time the following nobly undertook to read the first draft: Jorge Enrique Adoum, Mario Benedetti, Edgardo Carvalho, Antonio Doñate, Juan Gelman, Maria Elena Martinez, Ramirez Contreras, Lina Rodríguez, Miguel Rojas-Mix, Nicole Rouan, Pilar Royo, Cesar Salsamendi, Jose Maria Valverde, and Federico Vogelius. They suggested several changes and caught foolish and silly mistakes.

Once again Helena Villagra accompanied the work step by step, sharing tailwinds and setbacks, to the last line with mysterious patience.

This book

is dedicated to Tomás Borge, to Nicaragua.

This Book

is the last volume of the trilogy Memory of Fire . It is not an anthology but a literary creation, based on solid documentation but moving with complete freedom. The author does not know to what literary form the book belongs: narrative, essay, epic poem, chronicle, testimony … Perhaps it belongs to all or to none. The author relates what has happened, the history of America, and above all, the history of Latin America; and he has sought to do it in such a way that the reader should feel that what has happened happens again when the author tells it.

At the head of each text is given the year and place of each episode, except in certain texts which cannot be situated in any specific moment or place. At the foot, the numbers show the chief works the author has consulted in search of information and reference points. The absence of numbers shows that in that particular case the author has consulted no written source, or that he obtained his raw material from general information in periodicals or from the mouths of protagonists or witnesses. The sources consulted are listed at the end of the book.

Literal transcriptions are italicized.

The World Goes On

There were some who spent the savings of several generations on one last spree. Many insulted those they couldn’t afford to insult and kissed those they shouldn’t have kissed. No one wanted to end up without confession. The parish priest gave preference to the pregnant and to new mothers. This self-denying cleric lasted three days and three nights in the confessional before fainting from an indigestion of sins.

When midnight came on the last day of the century, all the inhabitants of San José de Gracia prepared to die clean. God had accumulated much wrath since the creation of the world, and no one doubted that the time had come for the final blowout. Breath held, eyes closed, teeth clenched, the people listened to the twelve chimes of the church clock, one after the other, deeply convinced that there would be no afterwards.

But there was. For quite a while the twentieth century has been on its way; it forges ahead as if nothing had happened. The inhabitants of San José de Gracia continue in the same houses, living and surviving among the same mountains of central Mexico — to the disenchantment of the devout who were expecting Paradise, and to the relief of sinners, who find that this little village isn’t so bad after all, if one makes comparisons.