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This is the story
of Antolin Jimenez...
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...a charro that was a revolutionary,
a mason, a politician...
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...and a businessman.
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One of his strangest adventures...
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...was to organize an army
of charros to fight the Nazis.
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No one told me about his story...
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...it was hidden in my family...
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...and it took me 4 years
to understand it.
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Antolin was my grandfather.
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Nobody had a personal
anecdote about him.
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Nobody ever said:
"Grandpa took me to the park...
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...or told me a bedtime story."
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I have no photographs with him.
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Although there are 700 pictures
in his file...
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...I have not a single picture
of the two together.
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He died 9 months after I was born.
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Everything was stunning...
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...yet at the same time
it was cold and mysterious...
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Honestly, I did not feel
much empathy...
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...and now I understand why.
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Behind all this splendor
there was a secret.
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I find it fascinating that
he reinvented himself...
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...so many times in his life,
and 36 years of mine had to pass...
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...to learn about
all these identities.
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I believe that any grandchild
would have loved to hear...
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...these stories about
his grandfather...
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...but we were not told at all...
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Why?
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The house my grandma Alicia
owns in Claveria...
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...is, to this day, covered
in pictures of him...
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...dressed as a "Charro".
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His presence was a constant
for everyone in the Jimenez family.
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His story of success was a legend
that spread by word of mouth...
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...and its origin was unquestioned
because it was also unknown.
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I think we just assumed he was someone
who mingled with important people...
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...knew how to make money...
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...had a certain degree
of recognition at his job...
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...and left my grandma a house
full of ostentatious objects...
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...somewhat bourgeois habits,
and memories.
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This is the story of my grandfather
Antolin Jimenez...
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...that includes different stories
from my country...
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...in which my grandfather took part.
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In 2010, the Mexican Embassy
in El Paso, Texas...
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...invited me to present a project
that consisted...
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...in mobile video interventions
done in specific urban contexts...
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...better known as Videoman.
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The expo was to celebrate 100 years
of the Mexican Revolution.
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I recall that in my childhood
I was told that my grandfather...
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...was a "Villa’s Golden Soldier".
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So I went to my grandmother’s house
to review his photographic archive...
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...and interview my uncles.
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-What’s up?
-Long time no see!
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-How are you?
-Good. Yourself?
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It’s been a while
since I last saw you.
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Hello, hello.
How are you?
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We came to interview you.
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It is important.
To know my grandfather’s story.
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-No, no, no.
-Come on, 10 minutes.
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I would like to know
what upsets you about him?
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Why do you want to know?
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What things you don't like
about the life of my grandfather?
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Just because.
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Hello?
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How are you, mom?
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I'm doing well, more or less,
I still have a headache.
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Do you feel better after what
we talk about this morning?
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Ok, then...
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Listen, the best thing to do if you
have problems with my uncles is...
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If they have something to say,
tell them to talk to me.
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"Listen, he is old enough,
if you participated...
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...or if you have a suggestion
or recommendation...
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...tell Fernando", and
don't put yourself in that position.
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Well, they wanted to participate
in a project about the charros...
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...and all that, they didn't imagine
how far it could go.
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You just want me to pay tribute
to my grandfather...
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...but still, we are going
to dig up...
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...the skeletons in the closet,
bring them into the light, because...
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...it would be good
that they could speak of that.
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An issue that they hid from
all the nephews and grandchildren.
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I didn't find out until
3 years ago.
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My grandfather Antolin and
my grandmother Alicia had a big family.
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7 sons and 13 grandsons.
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The oldest one was Sara.
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Then my uncle Antolin followed.
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Yoya was born next.
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She died when she was 3 apparently
because she ate ripe fruit.
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Then came my aunt Gela,
and afterwards my uncle Eduardo.
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Finally, like a cherry in a cake,
came the twins...
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...aunt Elena and Eugenia
who is my mother...
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...the youngest of the clan.
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In my grandmother’s house
I found many photographs...
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...press clippings, transparencies...
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...and an 8 mm footage.
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For example...
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...we are still finding more photos...
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...that are to be revised
at some point...
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...more transparencies...
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...the family...
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He certainly had fought
in the Mexican Revolution...
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...but I didn’t know he had done
so many things.
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In awe, I decided to follow
my grandfather’s footsteps.
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Why had no one told us
all these stories?
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Who had kept so meticulously
all these archives?
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What motivated him to join
the Revolution?
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How did he get from Tabasco,
his hometown...
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...to fight alongside Pancho Villa
in Chihuahua?
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The exact date when he joined
the Revolution is unknown.
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My father says that when...
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...General Villa arrived,
he was eating some grapes...
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...and my father went
and waited to be called...
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Villa told him:
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"Get closer, young man",
so my father approached...
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...then Villa continued:
“I’ve got some background on you.
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Would you like to join
the Villa’s 'Golden Soldiers'?"
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My grandfather was 25 years old when
he was appointed at Torreon...
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..."Lieutenant Colonel
of the Conventionist Army".
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The document which proofs this
is dated on 1915.
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...and it is signed by
Manuel Madinaveitia...
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...an acclaimed General of Villa who,
as most revolutionaries...
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...switched sides several times.
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When your grandfather was appointed
by the conventionalist army...
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...we are at a special moment
of the revolution.
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It is precisely the moment
in which the Carranza party...
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...the Villa party,
and the Zapata party...
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...got divided into two main bands.
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Antolin participated
in the famous Battle of Torreon...
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...one of the most decisive
military clashes...
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...of the Mexican Revolution.
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When my grandfather
was 26 years old...
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...he recalled that his greatest
deed was to blow up...
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...a train in the outskirts
of Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.
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But in those times, blowing up
a train, crazy machine style...
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...meaning letting the train filled
with dynamite go loose...
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...against the railway station, it was
more or less an everyday thing.
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My dad would show us the scars
he had in his leg and in his arm...
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...when telling us those stories.
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"It’s not that I was there
and all that..."
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But it was really a good adventure
and that is it.
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Madinaveitia, as did other generals
from the "North Division"...
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...abandoned Pancho Villa after the
defeats in Celaya and Agua Prieta.
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When Villa, I think,
was about to lose...
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...he told all of his companions...
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...that they should make their
own way because they had lost...
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...that is what I...
they had already lost...
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...the Revolution.
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My uncle did not say a word.
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He grabbed his things
and went to The Mixteca.
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Yes, from Oaxaca to Mixteca.
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Antolin realized
that in the Revolution...
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...everyone fights against
each other.
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That his superiors
were being betrayed, trapped...
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...and shot dead...
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...so he took the chance to forsake
his military career...
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...and look for a new occupation.
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Those who laid down arms
and could help starting...
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...a new system
in the post war ruins...
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...were usually rewarded
with a new position.
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My grandfather was named
inspector of alcohol and stamp duty.
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A whole taxman.
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That is how he started to capitalize.
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That, and a bag of gold given to him
by "The North Centaur", he said.
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Yes, a lot of money, gold.
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But that woman, who helped him...
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...buried the evidence, all the money
that my uncle was carrying.
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That is when my aunt married my uncle.
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When they met she was shoeless,
as it used to be back then.
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Without shoes.
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On June 27th, 1917...
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...he married Maria Cao Romero...
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...a dark skinned beauty
from Teposcolula, Oaxaca.
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Who was this lady?
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My grandfather's first wife,
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...whom nobody in my family
talked about.
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Is it feasible that only with a bag
of gold and his new job...
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...my grandfather made a fortune?
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What stories are hidden
in Antolin’s archives?
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It has been 40 years
since my dad died.
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I don’t care what he did.
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That was his life.
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I don’t want you to say anything.
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Here we see him in his office.
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Here we see him,
for example, as a mason.
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Here he has his apron
and lateral band...
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...which is something very typical of
Masons that comes from its symbolism.
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After the cosmic dust
and revolutionary lead...
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...the search for money
and kisses...
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...Antolin went into the world
of brotherhoods with the intention...
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...of ascending in the realm
of Mexican politics.
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January 3rd, 1929.
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Logia Fenix 13.
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And here in the back...
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...we find...
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...a hat.
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That should be...
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...I suppose Masonic.
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I don't know what "Anezeh" means...
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...but it's sound Arabic.
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The masons are a group which have
existed for centuries in secret...
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...in order to carry out activities
prohibited for thousands of years:
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Exchanging ideas and
arranging complicities.
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That is the reason why from
its ranks have sprung...
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...great number of thinkers,
politicians...
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...public figures and philanthropists.
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You know masonry does not work out
of self-interest...
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...they work for others, to serve.
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Being a mason gave my father
the opportunity...
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...to become a good politician.
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The circle of power in Mexican
politics is full of masons...
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...amongst them
were Vicente Guerrero...
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...Benito Juárez...
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...Lazaro Cardenas...
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...but also Ernesto Zedillo...
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...and Carlos Salinas.
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My grandfather Antolin joined
the ranks of the masons...
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...in 1920 in Torreon, Coahuila.
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When he saw what Masons
were about...
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...he began to move up the ranks
until he reached...
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...the maximum degree.
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33rd degree Grandmaster.
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I don't know which are the steps
to become this, but...
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...it's also interesting to see how
the 33, the two-headed eagle...
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...the Masonic Eye of Providence,
the Iztaccihuatl...
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...and the Popocatepetl
are all blended in together.
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When masons began to loose strength,
this political strength they had...
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...because of the rise
of mass parties...
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...the great popular organizations...
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...something quite interesting
about them remained...
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...which is social service labor...
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...and much of them will transit
from masonry...
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...to social service clubs
like the Lions, Rotary Club...
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...the Kiwanis. Well, all of these
things can be found...
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...and will maintain in this way
an interesting line of work...
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...because these Lions who were
masons and affiliates of PRI...
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...excuse me from making
this strange connections...
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...but this was more
or less frequent...
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...they were convinced that this
base work was needed to be done.
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Since the predecessors of the political
parties in Mexico...
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...were the Masonic lodges.
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So it was not hard for Antolin
to jump from one area to another...
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...and even less so thanks
to the relationships he built.
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This catapulted him to the degree...
242
00:17:52,113 --> 00:17:54,742
...of being involved in the foundation
of the party...
243
00:17:54,908 --> 00:17:57,995
...that would remain in power
for over 70 years.
244
00:17:58,662 --> 00:18:03,333
His political career began with
the Liberal Constitutionalist Party.
245
00:18:03,542 --> 00:18:06,462
The first political party
in this country.
246
00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:13,302
On 1922 he was named
Delegate for this party in Oaxaca...
247
00:18:13,802 --> 00:18:16,472
...and was invited to go to
the Mixteca populations...
248
00:18:16,597 --> 00:18:18,223
...in search of followers.
249
00:18:19,725 --> 00:18:22,768
A month later he was already
running for Proprietary Congressman...
250
00:18:22,978 --> 00:18:26,982
...and campaigned through Tlaxiaco,
Teposcolula and Putla.
251
00:18:28,108 --> 00:18:31,278
During his tours in Oaxaca
they played the famous waltz...
252
00:18:31,487 --> 00:18:32,863
..."God never dies"...
253
00:18:33,613 --> 00:18:36,742
...by Oaxacan composer
Macedonio Alcala...
254
00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:41,078
...considered to this day
the non-official state anthem.
255
00:18:51,632 --> 00:18:55,760
Tell me who you are
Oh God
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Who makes me suffer so much
257
00:19:00,598 --> 00:19:04,520
And my withered heart
258
00:19:04,645 --> 00:19:07,772
Cries endlessly for you
259
00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:11,235
I am from Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca.
260
00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:15,322
Tlaxiaco is hometown to your
grandfather Antolin Jimenez too...
261
00:19:15,905 --> 00:19:20,202
...and is a complex town,
it was called little Paris.
262
00:19:23,705 --> 00:19:28,877
We can talk, sing, paint,
express with strokes...
263
00:19:29,587 --> 00:19:33,757
...that lead us to appreciate
what we are...
264
00:19:34,215 --> 00:19:37,635
...and also to reinvent ourselves.
265
00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:43,225
That is what I call inheritance...
266
00:19:43,392 --> 00:19:47,562
...and not something from the past,
found over there...
267
00:19:47,687 --> 00:19:49,940
...in a tomb of Monte Alban...
268
00:19:50,065 --> 00:19:53,443
...although everything is connected
by the roots...
269
00:19:53,568 --> 00:19:57,572
...but it is also the present, it is us.
270
00:19:57,697 --> 00:20:02,493
I am here and I am part
of those old times.
271
00:20:08,792 --> 00:20:12,587
During the first elections of Antolin,
his offices were stoned...
272
00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,298
...they attempted to poison him,
and his origins were questioned...
273
00:20:15,465 --> 00:20:18,177
...as was his right to run
for that office in that area...
274
00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:22,638
...from Chiapas to Queretaro, Puebla,
Guatemalan and even "charro"...
275
00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:25,308
...were some of the versions
people said on this.
276
00:20:26,935 --> 00:20:30,230
"Alicia: I'm in a tremendous struggle...
277
00:20:30,605 --> 00:20:34,317
...against the imposition
of the government, that at all cost...
278
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,113
...wants Ortiz de Zárate triumph.
He is a complete stranger...
279
00:20:39,782 --> 00:20:43,118
...but the authorities are the ones
determined to make him succeed...
280
00:20:43,202 --> 00:20:46,037
...through dirty tricks
that I am fighting against.
281
00:20:46,372 --> 00:20:48,123
Say hello to all my children.
282
00:20:48,290 --> 00:20:49,792
Antolin."
283
00:20:52,085 --> 00:20:55,588
Even with the popular disqualification
he won the elections...
284
00:20:55,713 --> 00:20:58,300
...and ascended to the Congress
at the age of 32.
285
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:05,057
In his administrative career,
he went as far as prime officer...
286
00:21:05,348 --> 00:21:06,933
...for the Nations Statistics
Department...
287
00:21:07,058 --> 00:21:11,313
...charge which he resigned on 1924
to devote himself...
288
00:21:11,563 --> 00:21:16,693
...to "particular business" that would
surely consume his time completely.
289
00:21:18,612 --> 00:21:21,448
I assume he meant
his political career.
290
00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:26,662
Two years after, he was candidate for
the Federal Congress Deputy charge...
291
00:21:27,578 --> 00:21:30,707
...side by side with
General Alvaro Obregon...
292
00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:33,668
...the same who would later
have his boss killed...
293
00:21:33,668 --> 00:21:35,795
...General Villa after the Revolution.
294
00:21:36,588 --> 00:21:39,590
He won again and continued
to grow his political capital...
295
00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:40,758
...in the Mixteca highlands...
296
00:21:41,468 --> 00:21:43,470
...surely thankful for
the relationships he made...
297
00:21:43,637 --> 00:21:46,055
...in his wife's land, Maria.
298
00:21:46,765 --> 00:21:49,810
That small piece of land would
become cradle to several talents...
299
00:21:50,018 --> 00:21:52,770
...like wrestlers La Parkita
and Espectrito I...
300
00:21:52,937 --> 00:21:54,857
...and painter Rufino Tamayo.
301
00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:01,780
In parallel with
his political career...
302
00:22:01,863 --> 00:22:04,742
...he founded a financial
law firm in 1923...
303
00:22:05,408 --> 00:22:09,955
...on Uruguay street,
in downtown Mexico City.
304
00:22:12,165 --> 00:22:14,960
There he gathered decrees
published in the Official Gazette...
305
00:22:15,585 --> 00:22:18,505
...such as the alcohol laws,
bank regulations...
306
00:22:18,713 --> 00:22:20,840
...the stamps duty laws,
income tax, rent, etc.
307
00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:23,510
And then republished them
in editions...
308
00:22:23,677 --> 00:22:25,428
...with interchangeable sheets
so they could be updated.
309
00:22:27,847 --> 00:22:30,433
That is how Antolin Jimenez
Editions began...
310
00:22:31,142 --> 00:22:32,893
...in an office with 10 employees...
311
00:22:33,478 --> 00:22:35,605
...5 in charge of filings
and the other 5...
312
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:37,732
...printing in a room next door.
313
00:22:40,027 --> 00:22:42,320
It came to have
over 10,000 subscribers...
314
00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:45,448
...and the business ran all his life.
315
00:22:56,167 --> 00:23:00,755
A decade after his last
public charge in 1937...
316
00:23:01,923 --> 00:23:03,925
...with Lazaro Cardenas already
as president...
317
00:23:03,925 --> 00:23:05,885
...and on behalf of the PNR party...
318
00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:08,222
...he ran for Federal Deputy...
319
00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:12,017
...of the State of Oaxaca again
and he won again.
320
00:23:12,808 --> 00:23:14,770
Antolin was a three times
congressman...
321
00:23:15,020 --> 00:23:18,940
...representing 3 different parties
for a state in where he was not born.
322
00:23:33,037 --> 00:23:35,123
Understand, this
doesn't interest me...
323
00:23:35,165 --> 00:23:37,375
...it's great that you want
to make a film...
324
00:23:37,542 --> 00:23:41,713
...that you want to bring out
the defining things...
325
00:23:41,922 --> 00:23:43,005
...that my dad did.
326
00:23:43,298 --> 00:23:48,845
This is very important to us,
but other people don't care...
327
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:52,848
...nor they need or want
to know anything.
328
00:23:53,225 --> 00:23:55,560
-Nobody cares.
-Why is this affecting you mom?
329
00:23:55,685 --> 00:23:57,937
I don't want to know,
and like your father said:
330
00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:02,900
"It's his work, get over it,
and hold on...
331
00:24:03,152 --> 00:24:05,237
...and do what you have to do."
332
00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:07,947
It is neither transcendent
nor important...
333
00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:10,950
Mom, if it wasn't transcendent
you wouldn't be here crying.
334
00:24:11,618 --> 00:24:13,077
Go on then. Bye, we’ll talk later...
335
00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:22,045
How did my grandfather end up
in the world of charros?
336
00:24:23,422 --> 00:24:24,588
Hold on, for starters...
337
00:24:25,507 --> 00:24:29,260
Who are the charros and how
did they appear in our country?
338
00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:43,858
After the Revolution, and once
the distribution of land...
339
00:24:44,025 --> 00:24:48,112
...and estates was over,
the charros came to the city...
340
00:24:48,238 --> 00:24:51,617
...and turned their productive
activities into a sport party.
341
00:24:52,450 --> 00:24:55,495
In a show that transports
the spectacle of cattle ranches...
342
00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,415
...to the charro rinks that started
to be built...
343
00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:01,083
...in different cities of the country
in the late 20’s.
344
00:25:21,730 --> 00:25:24,648
President Pascual Ortíz Rubio
decreed the "charro" attire...
345
00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:28,945
...as a symbol of Mexican identity,
and punctually remarked:
346
00:25:29,112 --> 00:25:32,032
"It must be worn
with dignity and honor."
347
00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:38,622
From the 20’s to the 50’s the visual
imagery explodes through all media:
348
00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:45,128
Movies, songs, theatre,
publicity, etc.
349
00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:54,095
After the turmoil of the Revolution,
there was a country to reinvent...
350
00:25:55,222 --> 00:25:57,723
...as well as an identity
for its inhabitants.
351
00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:01,310
For those who were horseback
riders during the Revolution...
352
00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:05,315
...for those who were able to make
money with institutions...
353
00:26:05,982 --> 00:26:08,067
...it was easy to gain access
to the majestic...
354
00:26:08,402 --> 00:26:09,987
...and expensive "charro" world.
355
00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:13,615
Antolin fit that profile
and had the money to do it...
356
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,910
And if that wasn’t enough,
at his office worked...
357
00:26:17,077 --> 00:26:20,247
...the niece of one of the founders
of the charros in Mexico:
358
00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:21,957
Ramon Cosio Gonzalez.
359
00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:26,252
His initiation as a "charro"
surely had to do with these factors.
360
00:26:27,253 --> 00:26:28,838
I don’t know how he met
uncle Ramon...
361
00:26:29,297 --> 00:26:33,885
...but he was his buddy
for over a decade.
362
00:26:35,803 --> 00:26:38,723
During the 30’s he appears
in nearly all of his pictures...
363
00:26:39,057 --> 00:26:40,767
...proudly dressed like a "charro"...
364
00:26:41,643 --> 00:26:43,268
...with various expensive
looking suits...
365
00:26:43,353 --> 00:26:46,355
...and first class horses
which won prizes.
366
00:26:47,815 --> 00:26:50,777
President Cardenas gifted him
a horse which he named...
367
00:26:50,985 --> 00:26:53,153
..."El Cardenista" in his honor.
368
00:26:53,863 --> 00:26:58,033
So generous was the dome of power
in such a bountiful country of ours.
369
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:02,830
My grandfather also became
involved in the building...
370
00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:06,877
...of the "Charro Ranch" contributing
money and surely permits.
371
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,298
And by 1938 he came to be president
of the National Charro Association.
372
00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:21,975
Before age 40, Antolin was already
the highest mason degree..
373
00:27:22,892 --> 00:27:25,020
...was representative of the people
in the House of Representatives...
374
00:27:25,145 --> 00:27:29,107
...president of the most
representative Mexican group...
375
00:27:29,732 --> 00:27:31,902
...and had his own publishing business.
376
00:27:33,027 --> 00:27:36,948
The Revolution has done
him justice, exceedingly.
377
00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:47,958
Money...
378
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:49,793
...a good social status...
379
00:27:50,878 --> 00:27:52,047
...political power...
380
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,048
...and the national spotlight.
381
00:27:55,425 --> 00:27:56,968
What else can you ask for?
382
00:27:59,012 --> 00:28:01,097
Or maybe the right question is...
383
00:28:02,182 --> 00:28:03,975
What else cannot be invented?
384
00:28:12,108 --> 00:28:13,233
What I am sure of is that...
385
00:28:13,402 --> 00:28:18,907
...he was a true patriot,
he had his flag and carried it.
386
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:22,952
He was happy wearing his charro suit.
387
00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:26,748
This is the famous photo of
the "Legion of Mexican Guerrilleros".
388
00:28:30,377 --> 00:28:31,418
There is...
389
00:28:33,797 --> 00:28:34,838
...the famous...
390
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,927
...patch of the Legion
of Mexican Guerrilleros.
391
00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,763
I have not seen this one...
392
00:28:43,598 --> 00:28:45,225
...on any picture.
393
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,358
In 1942 my grandfather started
to organize an army of charros...
394
00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:57,112
...to repel a possible
Nazi invasion...
395
00:29:16,547 --> 00:29:18,925
All for the mother land
And for the money!
396
00:29:19,133 --> 00:29:21,887
All for the law...
And the cash!
397
00:29:22,053 --> 00:29:24,805
All for peace
But gun in hand!
398
00:29:24,972 --> 00:29:27,850
All for order... but you follow
Those who give the orders!
399
00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:31,270
This is for example the case
of what can be seen...
400
00:29:31,437 --> 00:29:32,772
...in your grandfather’s documents...
401
00:29:33,607 --> 00:29:40,405
...when he founded and created an army
to face the Nazis and the Japanese...
402
00:29:40,613 --> 00:29:43,198
...who were close to invade
the country.
403
00:29:43,742 --> 00:29:50,498
Those weapons that have
the eagle and the swastika on them...
404
00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:54,335
...belonged to people
living in Mexico...
405
00:29:55,043 --> 00:29:58,798
...and they were ready for anything,
during the World War II.
406
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:03,218
For instance, the State Department
sends a report...
407
00:30:03,845 --> 00:30:08,642
...the famous
"Nazis in Mexico" document...
408
00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:12,437
...that a Mexican officer
made for Cardenas.
409
00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:18,358
This report mentions that
among the Mexican military...
410
00:30:19,027 --> 00:30:21,737
...there is a great admiration
for the Nazi army.
411
00:30:25,283 --> 00:30:29,162
Antolin named his army
"The Legion of Mexican Guerrilleros".
412
00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:32,373
A name which surely sounds
as contradictory...
413
00:30:32,498 --> 00:30:35,083
...as "Institutional
Revolutionary Party".
414
00:30:35,668 --> 00:30:38,838
But even with these conceptual
contradictions of the time...
415
00:30:39,547 --> 00:30:42,758
...he took advantage of his presidency
over the National Charro Association...
416
00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:45,928
...and called via press releases
and posters...
417
00:30:46,262 --> 00:30:48,180
...for all the groups
in the country...
418
00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:50,808
...to rally and all horsemen in
the country to gather in groups.
419
00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:57,357
The President approved
of his initiative...
420
00:30:57,732 --> 00:31:00,985
...and National Secretary of Defense
gave military advice...
421
00:31:01,402 --> 00:31:05,282
...to the horsemen who would gather
every Sunday for training.
422
00:31:17,293 --> 00:31:21,338
The idea was to introduce the Group
on September 15th, 1942...
423
00:31:21,630 --> 00:31:24,258
...at the main square during
the "Day of National Approach"...
424
00:31:24,842 --> 00:31:27,387
...and that the president would give
them the flag in that act.
425
00:31:28,847 --> 00:31:31,933
But given that the CTM union
had already taken the square...
426
00:31:32,725 --> 00:31:35,520
...and the fact that the expected
1,500 charros...
427
00:31:35,937 --> 00:31:37,397
...and their horses
would not quite fit...
428
00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:41,483
...it had to be postponed until
May 1st at Paseo de la Reforma.
429
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:48,157
According to the press there were more
than a 1,000 armed charros...
430
00:31:48,282 --> 00:31:49,950
...who swore an oath there.
431
00:31:58,167 --> 00:32:01,253
On November 20th, the League
of Mexican Guerilleros paraded.
432
00:32:02,297 --> 00:32:04,548
My grandfather leaded them
and greeted...
433
00:32:04,757 --> 00:32:06,842
...the President
at the National Palace.
434
00:32:10,305 --> 00:32:13,642
The press talked about
amazing numbers.
435
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,478
They said they were more than
100,000 people in that team...
436
00:32:18,062 --> 00:32:21,190
...distributed in 250 groups
all over the country.
437
00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:25,820
There are no documents or pictures
that support those facts.
438
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:29,032
But there are a lot of references
in every newspaper.
439
00:32:30,073 --> 00:32:33,077
I’ll tell you to those
Who don't know
440
00:32:33,535 --> 00:32:36,330
That this strange
Story of history
441
00:32:37,165 --> 00:32:40,250
Was about a strong
And brave man
442
00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:44,547
Fighter by its own conviction
443
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:47,050
And Viva Mexico Motherfuckers!
444
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:53,682
My grandfather was over 50 years old
when he decided to organize...
445
00:32:53,682 --> 00:32:55,182
...this mounted regiment.
446
00:32:55,683 --> 00:32:59,812
How much of it was real and how
much was a political maneuver?
447
00:33:01,063 --> 00:33:04,150
How much of it served the purpose
of appreciating our traditions?
448
00:33:04,733 --> 00:33:06,777
And how possible was it?
449
00:33:08,237 --> 00:33:10,823
Was Charros vs. Panzers
a viable option?
450
00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:15,453
SS. vs. Golden?
451
00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:24,503
Could the North Division rise from the
ashes like the phoenix before old age?
452
00:33:25,212 --> 00:33:28,215
Is this the Chinaca heritage
in our genes?
453
00:33:32,470 --> 00:33:35,432
The first media mention of
the League of Mexican Guerrilleros...
454
00:33:36,307 --> 00:33:40,268
...was published
on August 28th, 1942.
455
00:33:41,228 --> 00:33:45,357
Exactly 3 months after
President Avila Camacho...
456
00:33:45,442 --> 00:33:48,610
...declared war on Japan,
Italy and Germany.
457
00:33:48,737 --> 00:33:50,697
...the attack came...
458
00:33:50,863 --> 00:33:56,202
...unexpected, disloyal and cowardly
hidden in the shadows...
459
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,247
...and the absolute confidence
of Impunity.
460
00:33:59,413 --> 00:34:03,417
After 59 articles in the press
mentioning the charro army...
461
00:34:03,793 --> 00:34:07,088
...published throughout a year
in various national media...
462
00:34:07,963 --> 00:34:12,510
...we find the last of them
on August 24th, 1943...
463
00:34:12,885 --> 00:34:16,972
...exactly one month after
the 201 Squad left...
464
00:34:17,098 --> 00:34:18,432
...for the Philippines.
465
00:34:28,025 --> 00:34:31,528
The question is: As part of the army,
and the 201 Squad...
466
00:34:31,737 --> 00:34:34,032
...did you happen to hear about...
467
00:34:34,282 --> 00:34:36,158
...the League of Mexican
Guerrilla Fighters?
468
00:34:36,867 --> 00:34:38,787
No, never hear from them.
469
00:34:39,162 --> 00:34:41,372
No, no, never, not even
in the Philippines.
470
00:34:41,705 --> 00:34:44,250
But here in Mexico, the League
of Mexican Guerrilla Fighters...
471
00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:47,587
...was a group of charros
that wanted to defend Mexico...
472
00:34:47,712 --> 00:34:49,422
-...from the Nazi.
-No, no, no.
473
00:34:50,047 --> 00:34:53,050
I would like to know if the 201 Squad
knew about this legion of fighters.
474
00:34:53,175 --> 00:34:55,052
No, no, no.
475
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:56,428
Unfortunately not.
476
00:34:57,972 --> 00:34:59,598
The Legion of Mexican
Guerrilla Fighters.
477
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,558
No, I don’t know them...
be careful.
478
00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:02,852
Don’t worry.
479
00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:05,855
-Did you ever hear about that?
-Not at all.
480
00:35:06,605 --> 00:35:08,983
Who knows where they invented it.
481
00:35:09,317 --> 00:35:10,568
It is in the newspapers.
482
00:35:10,652 --> 00:35:11,735
What date?
483
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:15,405
44... Before they sent
the 201 Squad away.
484
00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:17,992
I was too young,
I didn’t know what I was doing!
485
00:35:19,702 --> 00:35:23,705
But the Squad still has one
more battle to fight...
486
00:35:23,873 --> 00:35:27,877
...against indifference and ignorance
of his historic feat.
487
00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:38,930
If he had this success story covered
in such a premeditated way...
488
00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:42,933
...why didn't they tell anything
to the grandchildren?
489
00:35:44,727 --> 00:35:47,772
Why the silence and the distance?
490
00:35:49,023 --> 00:35:51,108
Hey, you talked to your mom?
491
00:35:51,192 --> 00:35:52,150
Yes, she called me.
492
00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:56,822
Well... it is turning bad.
493
00:35:57,072 --> 00:35:59,117
I perceive... I perceive...
494
00:35:59,908 --> 00:36:05,707
...that Sarita, Eduardo, Antolin,
everyone is against her.
495
00:36:06,248 --> 00:36:11,087
They are pushing
your mom to tell you...
496
00:36:11,837 --> 00:36:13,630
And...
497
00:36:13,755 --> 00:36:19,928
...and well your mom didn't sleep
last night of anguish and tachycardia.
498
00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:24,225
And she said:
"I'm in a dilemma.
499
00:36:24,558 --> 00:36:29,230
On one hand is my family,
they are my siblings.
500
00:36:29,397 --> 00:36:33,442
On the other side is my son,
and this is going to end badly."
501
00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:41,742
He needed everything done for him.
502
00:36:43,077 --> 00:36:46,080
This is something
that is stuck with me...
503
00:36:46,747 --> 00:36:48,207
...after washing his hands...
504
00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:53,253
...he would put his hands out
as if waiting for them to be dried.
505
00:36:56,007 --> 00:36:59,010
All those things bothered me.
506
00:37:00,678 --> 00:37:02,472
Sometimes once a week...
507
00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:05,642
...some others a long time would go
by without seeing him.
508
00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:10,647
I did not spend time with him, because
he always came a bit drunk...
509
00:37:11,855 --> 00:37:15,150
...so I used to go away...
510
00:37:15,317 --> 00:37:19,613
I freaked out when they started drinking.
511
00:37:20,322 --> 00:37:24,785
But he didn't use to come home
and hug us affectionately. He didn't.
512
00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:28,413
I lacked a father’s affection,
but since childhood...
513
00:37:29,665 --> 00:37:34,670
...and many other things,
not only the love from my dad...
514
00:37:35,295 --> 00:37:40,635
...but material things for which
we ached and suffered.
515
00:37:40,885 --> 00:37:44,847
Well, things that were often
needed for school...
516
00:37:47,308 --> 00:37:51,562
...this and that, we needed
clothes, shoes, all that we lacked...
517
00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:56,733
...and I noticed how he spent
money elsewhere...
518
00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:59,570
...while we needed it.
519
00:38:01,322 --> 00:38:05,367
My mother, my mother was my mother,
my father, my everything.
520
00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:08,370
My everything.
521
00:38:14,043 --> 00:38:18,838
My grandmother Alicia was the pillar
of all that family.
522
00:38:21,883 --> 00:38:23,927
She used to bake delicious
walnut cookies...
523
00:38:24,178 --> 00:38:25,930
...she was a very thoughtful person...
524
00:38:26,847 --> 00:38:29,142
...always had the perfect gift.
525
00:38:30,810 --> 00:38:32,353
She was very elegant.
526
00:38:35,063 --> 00:38:38,983
I also believe that she was a person
that repressed her feelings.
527
00:38:41,987 --> 00:38:43,947
I don't even I know how I found out...
528
00:38:44,407 --> 00:38:47,743
...by small things I overheard,
things I tied together...
529
00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:53,748
...and I started realizing but never
from my mother or anyone else...
530
00:38:53,748 --> 00:38:56,335
...nor my siblings, never...
531
00:38:56,918 --> 00:39:00,547
...never, nothing of the sort was
discussed at home, nothing.
532
00:39:01,798 --> 00:39:02,967
Nothing.
533
00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:06,512
When I began this research,
I did not know...
534
00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:08,055
...my grandfather had been
first married to a woman...
535
00:39:08,138 --> 00:39:10,557
...from Oaxaca, Maria Cao Romero...
536
00:39:11,142 --> 00:39:13,310
...with whom he had a son
called Jorge.
537
00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:16,105
That he met my grandma Alicia,
still a minor...
538
00:39:16,272 --> 00:39:18,065
...while working as his secretary...
539
00:39:18,482 --> 00:39:22,903
...and was her lover for almost
30 years until his first wife died.
540
00:39:23,403 --> 00:39:26,157
No one spoke of this in my family.
541
00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:39,103
New York, September 15th, 1953.
542
00:40:39,605 --> 00:40:44,693
Alicia: Today it is 9 days
that I’ve been in this important...
543
00:40:44,777 --> 00:40:47,488
...and attractive city
for its many activities.
544
00:40:48,655 --> 00:40:50,532
Tomorrow I will leave bound
for Europe...
545
00:40:50,698 --> 00:40:53,702
...I'll get to Cherbourg on the 21st
and on the same day to Paris.
546
00:40:53,743 --> 00:40:58,582
I've known the best of this city
and I found it very interesting.
547
00:40:58,832 --> 00:41:04,297
I have been forced to learn more
English, that is to speak it.
548
00:41:04,505 --> 00:41:06,673
Yesterday I went to visit
Mr. President Miguel Aleman.
549
00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:11,512
He is here, we talked
for over an hour...
550
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,682
...he will return home later
this month.
551
00:41:15,515 --> 00:41:18,685
Don't write me back because
I will not have a fixed location.
552
00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:22,648
After France I will go to Italy,
Switzerland, Spain...
553
00:41:22,732 --> 00:41:25,692
...and probably Jerusalem,
England, and Germany.
554
00:41:26,652 --> 00:41:29,488
I will try to write more
from any of these points.
555
00:41:31,073 --> 00:41:33,575
Affectionately greet your mom...
556
00:41:33,742 --> 00:41:36,578
...and my goddaughter Lupita,
and my little twin daughters...
557
00:41:36,703 --> 00:41:39,540
..."the cuatitas", I remember
them much.
558
00:41:39,873 --> 00:41:43,002
To all my other children
I am writing now.
559
00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:45,503
A loving hug for you.
560
00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:46,797
Antolin Jimenez.
561
00:41:48,548 --> 00:41:51,635
I did not live with him,
he did not live with us...
562
00:41:52,468 --> 00:41:53,762
...he had a separate world.
563
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,727
So all this charro stuff
wasn't part of us.
564
00:42:01,645 --> 00:42:06,650
I never wore a charro suit
because it never...
565
00:42:06,650 --> 00:42:10,487
...interested me.
566
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:13,740
I had memories like...
567
00:42:18,287 --> 00:42:19,497
...looking at the Christmas tree...
568
00:42:22,165 --> 00:42:23,208
...empty.
569
00:42:24,502 --> 00:42:27,588
The small house where my family
was raised, had three stories...
570
00:42:28,047 --> 00:42:30,798
...six children, a piano
and two cars.
571
00:42:33,385 --> 00:42:36,680
The big house had horses and
was in the Condesa neighborhood.
572
00:42:38,307 --> 00:42:42,477
My grandfather’s archive has
almost 700 documents and pictures.
573
00:42:43,353 --> 00:42:45,855
If he had so many pictures
of all those events...
574
00:42:47,148 --> 00:42:49,610
...then why didn’t he have a single
one of the funeral or the grave...
575
00:42:50,027 --> 00:42:53,655
...or a press note about the famous
accident where his first wife...
576
00:42:54,072 --> 00:42:55,573
...Maria Cao Romero died?
577
00:42:57,033 --> 00:42:58,993
And what if she never died?
578
00:43:01,705 --> 00:43:03,665
What if she simply went back
to Teposcolula?
579
00:43:06,502 --> 00:43:08,545
What if she just grew tired
of El Charro and his adventures?
580
00:43:16,678 --> 00:43:20,098
I found them on the internet.
I searched their last name...
581
00:43:20,265 --> 00:43:22,142
...and they are the granddaughters.
582
00:43:22,685 --> 00:43:25,228
-What's their last name?
-It's Cao Romero.
583
00:43:25,437 --> 00:43:27,982
-Oh yes... sure they are.
-Yes, they are.
584
00:43:28,107 --> 00:43:30,650
No, but please, not with
this people Fernando.
585
00:43:31,152 --> 00:43:32,068
Why?
586
00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:36,490
Because they deal with black magic
and have always spelled on us.
587
00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:38,408
They did much harm to me.
588
00:43:40,535 --> 00:43:44,873
And then you come here
and tell me about this...
589
00:43:45,457 --> 00:43:47,250
...making me so nervous,
that I think...
590
00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:52,130
...this is not over yet.
I need to keep moving on.
591
00:43:52,255 --> 00:43:54,633
I don't want you to get involved
in this.
592
00:43:55,008 --> 00:43:57,635
They could be bothering us once again.
593
00:43:57,845 --> 00:44:02,892
Listening to the last name "Cao Romero"
comes like a shock to me.
594
00:44:03,225 --> 00:44:06,603
I want to put an end to this
and forgive.
595
00:44:07,020 --> 00:44:09,857
I want them to leave us alone.
596
00:44:10,023 --> 00:44:14,193
I want everyone to keep living
their lives, and the karma goes away.
597
00:44:21,077 --> 00:44:22,077
Hello?
598
00:44:22,077 --> 00:44:23,578
-Adriana?
-Yes.
599
00:44:23,828 --> 00:44:25,538
Hi, how are you?
This is Fernando.
600
00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:26,873
Hello Fernando, how are you?
601
00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:31,128
Hey, how nice. You can't imagine
what I've gone through...
602
00:44:31,295 --> 00:44:32,587
...I will tell you more
about this later...
603
00:44:32,713 --> 00:44:37,550
...but if you’re related to Maria Cao
Romero de Jimenez...
604
00:44:37,843 --> 00:44:41,513
...I would love to chat with you
or with your uncle or whomever...
605
00:44:41,722 --> 00:44:43,640
...because my grandfather
was her husband.
606
00:44:45,142 --> 00:44:47,143
-Who, Antolin?
-Yes, Antolin.
607
00:44:47,602 --> 00:44:49,228
It's a topic that in my family was...
608
00:44:49,688 --> 00:44:51,607
-...was hidden.
-Kept a secret.
609
00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:54,150
-Kept a secret.
-Yes, kept a secret.
610
00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:56,862
The story goes that my aunt Maria...
611
00:44:57,403 --> 00:44:59,698
...could not have children.
She married Antolin.
612
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:01,867
In those times it was common...
613
00:45:02,325 --> 00:45:07,330
...that given that Maria had no children,
Juan and Amparo...
614
00:45:07,413 --> 00:45:08,707
...would send them two of theirs.
615
00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:12,878
It’s like back then,
not having children was...
616
00:45:12,962 --> 00:45:14,630
...was...
617
00:45:16,005 --> 00:45:19,133
...a reason for loosing your husband.
618
00:45:19,510 --> 00:45:21,928
Well, Miguel Cao Romero is my dad.
619
00:45:23,138 --> 00:45:26,642
He was an adoptive child
of aunt Maria...
620
00:45:26,767 --> 00:45:32,688
...that he used to call her aunt Boru,
and uncle Antolin.
621
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:34,942
He will always be thankful with
aunt Boru and uncle Antolin...
622
00:45:35,025 --> 00:45:38,070
...for raising him and even
sending him to college.
623
00:45:38,195 --> 00:45:44,283
See, my uncle was a mason.
He would go to the meetings...
624
00:45:44,493 --> 00:45:47,162
...and my dad would go
with him to watch his car.
625
00:45:48,372 --> 00:45:50,957
I don't know, but my dad
never spoke bad of them.
626
00:45:53,168 --> 00:45:58,132
Uncle Antolin was very serious...
like sullen.
627
00:46:07,057 --> 00:46:10,518
In our family, my uncle Antolin...
628
00:46:11,562 --> 00:46:13,605
...the aunts, the sisters
who are still alive...
629
00:46:14,438 --> 00:46:16,192
...have not such good memories
of him...
630
00:46:16,317 --> 00:46:19,193
...because he cheated on
my aunt Maria many times.
631
00:46:19,235 --> 00:46:20,903
-Many times?
-Yes.
632
00:46:21,238 --> 00:46:23,073
He had his women...
633
00:46:23,157 --> 00:46:27,870
...then my aunt Boru was very
obedient, a very good woman...
634
00:46:27,953 --> 00:46:28,912
...very...
635
00:46:28,995 --> 00:46:32,082
...very faithful to him.
636
00:46:32,623 --> 00:46:33,875
Then...
637
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:38,172
...she dies in an accident
and it seems that...
638
00:46:38,630 --> 00:46:40,048
...Antolin was driving.
639
00:46:40,423 --> 00:46:42,927
They were headed for Teposcolula.
My aunt was a generous woman.
640
00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:45,512
And this is why there
is a school...
641
00:46:46,305 --> 00:46:47,722
...in Teposcolula named after her:
642
00:46:47,890 --> 00:46:49,390
Maria Cao Romero de Jimenez.
643
00:46:51,852 --> 00:46:53,895
I studied here at Maria Cao Romero
de Jimenez School.
644
00:46:54,522 --> 00:46:58,025
All the land was owned
by Antolin Jimenez...
645
00:46:58,900 --> 00:47:00,610
...all that land.
646
00:47:00,693 --> 00:47:02,612
So he was able to help
building the school...
647
00:47:02,947 --> 00:47:04,532
...where I studied.
648
00:47:04,740 --> 00:47:09,202
That house was Antolin's,
from the white gate.
649
00:47:10,537 --> 00:47:15,625
Mr. Juan Cao Romero
and his family lived there.
650
00:47:17,168 --> 00:47:21,088
The brother of my aunt Maria Cao Romero.
651
00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:24,885
-He lived there for many years.
-Many years.
652
00:47:25,885 --> 00:47:27,637
Not with Maria Cao Romero...
653
00:47:27,637 --> 00:47:29,640
...but with another woman.
654
00:47:29,723 --> 00:47:36,480
They said that he had another
wife with children in Mexico City.
655
00:47:39,650 --> 00:47:42,485
Antolin started to drink...
656
00:47:43,528 --> 00:47:47,240
...precisely because
he had two homes.
657
00:47:48,242 --> 00:47:50,785
He was in the other house....
658
00:47:51,287 --> 00:47:53,913
...so when he got back he felt...
659
00:47:54,707 --> 00:47:56,750
...and my aunt already knew it.
660
00:47:56,750 --> 00:48:00,587
Antolin wasn't a charro,
Antolin was a phony charro...
661
00:48:00,837 --> 00:48:01,547
...that is what we called him...
662
00:48:01,713 --> 00:48:04,423
...because he had many charro suits...
663
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:11,180
...he had a closet full of them,
but above all he had many hats.
664
00:48:11,682 --> 00:48:17,645
His political career was built
through the friends that he had...
665
00:48:18,522 --> 00:48:20,273
...mainly Cardenas.
666
00:48:21,358 --> 00:48:28,240
So, the way to reach the top
is having a friend in politics.
667
00:48:28,948 --> 00:48:33,537
He was very greedy,
and was not generous.
668
00:48:34,162 --> 00:48:40,543
He would do odd things,
as if simulating.
669
00:48:41,503 --> 00:48:45,340
When he received donations
of school items, for example...
670
00:48:45,507 --> 00:48:48,093
...he would come home and say
that he had bought them.
671
00:48:48,135 --> 00:48:54,015
He had a special room where
all school material would arrive...
672
00:48:54,598 --> 00:48:55,933
...and he would store it.
673
00:48:56,267 --> 00:49:00,313
He would prohibit its distribution,
he had to be present to decide...
674
00:49:00,438 --> 00:49:02,983
...who kept the notebooks,
who kept the chalks...
675
00:49:03,233 --> 00:49:04,400
...and who kept the pencils.
676
00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:10,323
And of course people would say
they were gifts from Antolin.
677
00:49:11,115 --> 00:49:16,245
It was a lie, the government
would give it to him...
678
00:49:16,455 --> 00:49:18,290
...since he was a Congressman.
679
00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:20,292
I am going to tell you the truth:
680
00:49:21,335 --> 00:49:27,507
We all thought that
my aunt had been murdered.
681
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:28,592
Why?
682
00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:34,765
Because they went to Teposcolula
to celebrate Antolin’s birthday.
683
00:49:35,765 --> 00:49:39,687
He took her and before
they reached Acatlan...
684
00:49:40,728 --> 00:49:46,818
...it turns out that the truck
went into the river after a curve...
685
00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:50,572
...and the only one that
was hurt was my aunt.
686
00:49:51,573 --> 00:49:55,577
A maid, a driver and Antolin
were also in the car...
687
00:49:55,868 --> 00:50:01,207
...and the only one that died
was my aunt.
688
00:50:03,418 --> 00:50:05,253
I can tell you that
there was no crash.
689
00:50:05,837 --> 00:50:09,883
When we went we saw
that the car was in the river...
690
00:50:10,383 --> 00:50:11,927
...without a scratch.
691
00:50:12,052 --> 00:50:15,138
It did not flip or anything,
on the contrary...
692
00:50:15,305 --> 00:50:16,848
...they placed it there.
693
00:50:17,057 --> 00:50:22,812
It was not an accident, it was
a premeditated thing.
694
00:50:23,313 --> 00:50:25,232
He wanted to get rid of her.
695
00:50:25,357 --> 00:50:31,447
He had many children with her lover. He
already had a house and everything...
696
00:50:31,780 --> 00:50:34,115
...and the only thing that was
in the way was my aunt.
697
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:41,038
Now I am the oldest one,
I am 91 years old...
698
00:50:42,207 --> 00:50:44,333
...and all of them have died.
699
00:50:51,717 --> 00:50:54,260
When I asked this man...
700
00:50:55,512 --> 00:50:57,472
...if he really believed
that my grandfather...
701
00:50:57,555 --> 00:50:59,975
...had killed Maria Cao Romero...
702
00:51:00,517 --> 00:51:02,435
...why he didn't acted legally...
703
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:08,317
...he answered: "Impossible.
Your grandfather was a Congressman...
704
00:51:10,068 --> 00:51:11,737
...he was untouchable."
705
00:51:17,950 --> 00:51:20,453
I don't think, honestly...
706
00:51:21,580 --> 00:51:23,498
...for the love that I get to see
in those pictures...
707
00:51:23,873 --> 00:51:26,000
...that my grandfather
had killed his first wife...
708
00:51:27,127 --> 00:51:29,045
...nor think...
709
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,927
...the family of Cao Romero had done
black magic to my family.
710
00:51:36,553 --> 00:51:39,472
I think both versions
are exaggerated...
711
00:51:41,558 --> 00:51:44,643
...and hiding the story for so long...
712
00:51:45,770 --> 00:51:47,772
...has distorted the facts...
713
00:51:48,482 --> 00:51:50,525
...and has generated many grudges...
714
00:51:50,525 --> 00:51:56,615
...and has done more to distance
these families...
715
00:51:56,782 --> 00:51:58,658
...that at some point
were bounded by Antolin.
716
00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:02,745
Perhaps the most healthier
thing would be...
717
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:06,917
...to be able to analyze
their feelings...
718
00:52:07,708 --> 00:52:09,460
...maybe get to meet each other.
719
00:52:10,212 --> 00:52:11,337
Why not?
720
00:52:12,838 --> 00:52:14,842
I think my grandfather Antolin
would have liked that.
721
00:52:19,095 --> 00:52:20,388
I am very sick.
722
00:52:22,765 --> 00:52:24,767
I am a diabetic...
723
00:52:25,102 --> 00:52:26,352
...and sometimes I feel that...
724
00:52:28,062 --> 00:52:29,105
...death is coming...
725
00:52:32,108 --> 00:52:35,112
...then I know I must forgive...
726
00:52:36,530 --> 00:52:38,490
...to be able to go in peace.
727
00:52:40,117 --> 00:52:41,408
Do it aunt.
728
00:52:41,408 --> 00:52:42,452
Yes, I will.
729
00:52:57,842 --> 00:53:01,888
Antolin Jimenez ended his years
spending his money...
730
00:53:01,972 --> 00:53:03,765
...with my grandmother Alicia.
731
00:53:05,058 --> 00:53:08,102
He gave all his children a house
for their wedding...
732
00:53:08,853 --> 00:53:11,105
...except for my aunt Sara,
who did not marry...
733
00:53:11,773 --> 00:53:14,150
...and my mother because
he was short of money.
734
00:53:15,402 --> 00:53:17,487
He did not die at his office
because it happened on a Saturday.
735
00:53:18,028 --> 00:53:20,698
He was shopping with
my brother and my mom...
736
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:24,327
...in a mall...
737
00:53:24,995 --> 00:53:27,997
...there is where he died, consumed
by his 5th heart attack.
738
00:53:27,997 --> 00:53:31,042
On February 8th,1975.
739
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:41,845
How far away I am, from the land
Where I was born
740
00:53:43,763 --> 00:53:49,810
Great longing invades my heart
741
00:53:51,772 --> 00:53:57,902
Upon watching myself so lonely
And sad, like a leaf in the wind
742
00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:05,952
I feel like crying
743
00:54:08,705 --> 00:54:14,710
I feel like crying
744
00:54:16,295 --> 00:54:22,302
I feel like crying
745
00:54:23,553 --> 00:54:30,352
I feel like crying
746
00:54:32,312 --> 00:54:39,443
I feel like dying
747
00:54:40,403 --> 00:54:49,495
Of sorrow
748
00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:10,725
Although I have documents
that link my grandfather...
749
00:55:10,767 --> 00:55:11,768
...to the Mexican Revolution...
750
00:55:12,852 --> 00:55:16,898
...Antolin Jimenez’ name does
not appear in the lists of veterans.
751
00:55:22,112 --> 00:55:24,322
For 15 years my grandfather
was a politician...
752
00:55:24,488 --> 00:55:27,450
...but there aren't too many quantifiable
achievements of his administration...
753
00:55:28,952 --> 00:55:32,997
...but much indeed of the typical
bureaucracy paperwork.
754
00:55:38,002 --> 00:55:40,422
It's been over 6 decades
since my grandfather...
755
00:55:40,505 --> 00:55:45,468
...made his charro army to fight
the Nazis in case of an invasion.
756
00:55:46,762 --> 00:55:49,763
He left the world of charros
after a heart attack...
757
00:55:50,182 --> 00:55:52,183
...he couldn't ride again.
758
00:55:52,767 --> 00:55:56,562
There are still a few of
his expensive charro suits.
759
00:55:57,563 --> 00:56:01,692
His gun and the silver ornaments,
as well as his properties...
760
00:56:02,568 --> 00:56:04,653
...were sold or pawned.
761
00:56:11,787 --> 00:56:15,707
To this day, my family gets
uncomfortable when talking about...
762
00:56:15,998 --> 00:56:18,752
...something other than
grandpa's "successes".
763
00:56:22,255 --> 00:56:24,382
Now I admire my grandfather
for his ability...
764
00:56:24,548 --> 00:56:29,220
...to reinvent himself and grow
in different areas...
765
00:56:29,262 --> 00:56:30,472
...but it bothers me to know
that he represents...
766
00:56:30,638 --> 00:56:34,308
...the construction of a political
system of excess...
767
00:56:34,350 --> 00:56:36,435
...that has cost the country a lot.
768
00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:46,905
I wanted to know
the story of Antolin...
769
00:56:47,697 --> 00:56:50,700
...and I ended up learning about
the history of my country...
770
00:56:50,908 --> 00:56:51,785
...through my grandfather.
771
00:56:52,785 --> 00:56:54,828
I am left with more questions
than answers.
772
00:57:00,710 --> 00:57:01,962
The question I ask myself now is:
773
00:57:02,795 --> 00:57:08,718
How did my grandmother Alicia
managed to endure, to keep pace?
774
00:57:11,053 --> 00:57:12,222
All for the Motherland.
775
00:57:23,608 --> 00:57:27,903
TO MEXICO WITH A LOT OF LOVE
61704
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