La Jornada: The conspiracy struggles to banish myths and vindicate the Mayans: Delia Rendón

For production motives, the assembly of the conspiracy It has simplest given five performances for the reason that its most desirable, in 2021. This 12 months it will likely be provided on June 10 within the Yucatecan municipality of Valladolid and at the Cultural Autumn Festival, in the identical country, in October.Photo courtesy of the organisation

With the purpose of vindicating the Mayan subculture and demystifying the supposed atrocities committed by way of the indigenous humans all through the so-known as caste struggle (from 1847 to 1901), the trainer and playwright Delia María Rendón Novelo gives the production conspires her, stimulated by way of the warrior fantasy with historical figures titled The Xinúm conspiracy: the caste battle in Yucatán, Yucatecan historian and playwright Ermilo Abreu Gómez (1894-1971).

The scenic thought might be supplied on June 10 at 7:00 p.M. Inside the municipality of Valladolid, Yucatán, with the participation of extra than ninety Mayan actors, 25 of them children, all contributors of the Peasant and Indigenous Theater Laboratory.

It is ready denying the slanders that, through the years and up to now, had been taken as actual through the human beings and a few historiansexplained the playwright, in a talk with The Conference

When Abreu Gómez talks approximately the 3 maximum crucial Mayan leaders, Manuel Antonio Ay, Cecilio Chi and Jacinto Pat, he recounts an anecdote that occurred in a cantina, wherein a plan prepared with the aid of these leaders become supposedly determined in order that the whole Mayan populace rebels in opposition to the criollo oppression and injustice. Supposedly, the plot involved killing all the whites, said Rendón Novelo.

“The clearest component that what happened within the cantina is a hoax, a slander, a lie, against the Mayan leaders, is that, supposedly, Manuel Antonio Ay changed into getting drunk with a group of network squaddies and they were bragging that they were going to rise up against the authorities, and that even Manuel Antonio caught a machete into the desk… and in that, he dropped a piece of paper that he had hidden in his hat, which the proprietor of the canteen, Antonio Rajón, picked up , who become also the justice of the peace of the then municipality of Chichimilá.

That paper, probably, become a letter from the chief Cecilio Chi, in which he said that they already had the weapons and supplies, that the entirety turned into ready to start the rebellion they had agreed upon. So, Rajón (Abreu Gómez’s individual) tells the political-military leader of Valladolid, whose actual call changed into Eulogio Rosado.

Fantastic story

In her book, Abreu Gómez intelligently and really subtly offers sure clues or references that this was a lie, saying: “Just because the dzules instructed it…”, because the Mayans said to the whites, explains the trainer.

“Don Ermilo needed to write it that manner because the records of the caste warfare were nonetheless very fresh, and he could not say, in a blatant way, that this or that turned into a lie, due to the fact the politicians, the navy and intellectuals were going to encounter him. Porfiristas.

That anecdote this is taken as authentic, consisting of those historians and intellectuals of the time, no longer best served to discredit the Mayan leaders of that point, however also for the Yucatecan navy to begin a massacre of Mayans.Rendón Novelo highlighted.

The letter of the alleged conspiracy was an absurd invention, as it was also written in Spanish. How changed into it feasible for a Mayan chief to send a letter to another Mayan leader in Spanish? Not best that, talking at duration about his strategy, his weapons, that they may be going to rebel and kill all of the whites or dzules.

Such statistics are the axis of the meeting of conspires her, mentioned the Mayan teacher Delia María Rendón Novelo, who's co-founder, collectively with the also renowned stage writer María Alicia Martínez Medrano (1937-2018), of the Laboratory of the Peasant and Indigenous Theater of Yucatán and Tabasco.

During the display, which is represented in Mayan and Spanish, and which makes use of multimedia assets, the individual of El Tiempo (in its Mayan meaning), orders his four daughters, Historia, Memoria, Constancia and Verdad, to cope with the history of the Mayans, because they've instructed lies that have broken them as a subculture and civilization. So they decide to start the caste war, remembering the Mayan leaders.

It is a staging in which there is additionally speak of other rebellions, inclusive of that of the sixteenth century by using Jacinto Canek. The idea, Rendón concluded, is to vindicate the Mayan culture.

For reasons of production and price range, the meeting of the conspiracy It has simplest given 5 performances on the grounds that its most effective, in 2021; that is, most effective two a yr. In addition to the second presentation on June 10, the organization became invited to participate within the Cultural Autumn Festival in October.