Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea

Author:Luis Alberto Urrea [ALBERTO URREA, LUIS]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9780316192040
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2012-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Five

AS IF SIGNALED BY the eruption in Clifton, the Yaquis attacked the border again, sweeping out of the desert hills like furious spirits, wraiths with fire in their hands, assaulting Ojinaga, Juárez. They had learned things in 1896—not many wore Teresita’s picture over their hearts this time—and they struck like Apaches, from ambush and arroyo, from high outcrops and in speeding runs through undefended streets, blazing and shrieking. But the Mexicans had learned things too, and they surged forth with massive numbers of riders and Rurales and mercenaries in killing waves, with American Gatling guns and repeating rifles, and their sheer numbers, their waves of horses, overcame the attackers and beat them to the earth, where they were shot and skewered and stomped under hoof and boot as the sacred Yaqui flag with its hummingbird on a narrow field of white fell into the bloody mud. It was Ochoa’s revolution at last, but it was crushed before it began.

The Mexicans immediately accused Lauro Aguirre and sent agents across the river, as did the Americanos, but he had fled El Paso. Aguirre did not know where to go to evade these calamities. He knew nothing of what had happened in Clifton. But he knew there was refuge there, refuge among the family he loved second only to his own. Don Tomás Urrea! The Lion of the Mountains! Teresita! The blessed Saint, Queen of Mexico, Queen of the Yaquis, Mother of the Revolt, Angel of Peace! So he sped away, sped west, trying to outrun night, trying to outrun the authorities. He would have to hide. He would have to creep like an outlaw. Always hoping for sanctuary, hoping for one last chance to inspire Teresita to ignite the world and cleanse it with wrath.

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