In the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century , the two great powers of those then in the Old World , the papacy and the Empires , lose strength . A new class, the bourgeoisie, will step in and will start to take shape capitalism , growing trade and cities: is the era of innovations and discoveries . Declines in a stage of obscurantism , but do not disappear servitude or the Inquisition against heretics and starts alongside the modern age : Progress, comunication , reason and humanism, make an appearance in all its glory . They appear in the picture , Dante , Petrarch , Giotto Bottichelli , Lorenzo de Medici , Torquemada , Leonardo da Vinci , Michelangelo, Raphael , Machiavelli . We develop an intellectual and artistic movement inspired by classical antiquity. Appears print. It is the uprising of the humanity of those directions, against feudal regulation and rigidity . It is the first flight of the human being, to the enjoyment of life , to knowledge , to trust in themselves. It investigates and boldly expresses the truth of life and death, away from the concept of God and the Bible, as had happened for a long time in the Middle Ages based on the Scholastica , alchemy and astrology ...
In our American territories , running the year 1440, Nezahualcoyotl ( Coyote fasting ) , lord of Texcoco , poet, scholar and architect , brings her creations and writings, highlighting the reflections which makes about life :
¨ Do they really live on earth?
not forever on earth : Just a little here.
Jade even breaks
gold even breaks
plumage even tears Quetzal
not forever on earth : Just a little here ¨
The Mexica Tenochcas , my ancestors , were the group Nahuatl more important in prehispanic Mexico. Came from Aztlan (place of whiteness or place of herons ) . It was a village in actions and deeds worthy of admiration . They were heroic and made their best efforts to adverse situations and dangerous . Power were more powerful in Mesoamerica , carriers of the great cultures of the American continent to conquer territory by venturing outside their natural regions , reaching beyond territories Guatemala and Honduras . They were lovers of myths , legends , astrology , books , dance , music and poetry .
The basic organizational form was the Calpulli . Consisted of a clan or group of families , which used to have a common ancestor and were engaged in trades such as goldsmith , stone carving , textiles , medicine , commerce and agriculture . Their members , working closely with each other and are mutually protected . The government of the community was in the hands of a calpullec selected from families contituyendo total command . The land was mostly owned by the Calpulli . The plots calpullec handed it to the heads of families. Vivian of your product, but they could not sell or cultivate stop . Some part of the manufactoring , was intended to support public services , religious or administrative purposes. On this basis was built across the social pyramid was developed rather quickly. With that power , strengthened warrior aristocracy and administrative work of peasants lived obliged to pay taxes to the government. There were slaves , mostly prisoners of war, destined for sacrifice to the gods. Other , not to cover their debts to pay. Those who had committed a crime and those who had sold themselves , to be in misery. That happened when little food or droughts. The slaves had to do work for the ruling class and deliver products of their crops , as well as build palaces and temples.
The city of Tenochtitlan , Aztec seat of power , was a stunning beauty , built on pyramidal or conical bases . It was embellished by several pyramids coated paintings that dominated the red and blue colors . These buildings , uniques in the world at that time , stood up everywhere, like the Templo Mayor , now located in the city center , next to the Cathedral. There, was found Coatlicue , mother of Huitzilopochtli , chief god of the Aztecs . His head is provided formed by two snakes , her skirt has woven several snakes and feet symbolize claws represent natural forces of life and death and the unity of the world .
The rulers built palaces, lived independently. There were also popular housing construction , where several families lived . These rooms had a large courtyard in the center that operated as a meeting to discuss or conduct festivals or ceremonies . Outside the city , were the homes of ordinary people and beyond, the huts of strangers . The peasants lived difrentes scattered areas in the countryside .
In the main urban center , central axes were called roads that led from the city center , towards the four cardinal points ...
The Aztecs came to dominate herbalism outstandingly identifying and exploiting many plants used for medicinal and healing . They met and power plants that used hallucinogens in their rituals and religious ceremonies , to enter comunication with their gods. Temaxcal baths ( steam temple ) were rescued and were handled by witches and sorcerers , ahì medicinal plants used directly or hallucinogenic power ... They were very superstitious , applied , magic, and astrology clean . Believed that the life of the people was governed by the date of his birth and the position of the planets were days and other nefarious favorable for certain activities and could choose suitable dates to perform safely. Hence the importance of the Aztec Calendar to make decisions. They believed in many gods governing different aspects of nature and human life.
The Mexican educaciòn was differentiated by social class. Children at the age of six, were prepared in the Tepochcalli : They played simple tasks. Older age , they are trained to be warriors , brave and obedient. The girls were preparing to perform domestic tasks and lead a modest life . The sons of noblemen , attended the Calmecac , get an education to carry out the functions of government and command. There were also , homes ridge ( cuicacalli ) , stereo and dance. The educational ideal was: Mature man in heart ¨ firm as stone , Heart strong as a tree trunk , face wise ¨ ...
For the Mexica - Tenochca important rite was that of human sacrifice performed to please the gods , feed or send messages : They were warriors captured in wars. Every year in Tenochtitlan were sacrificed thousands of prisoners , so catering to Huitzilopochtli : Hot Tortillas ¨ ¨ (warriors slaughtered ) for when you want and eat he pleased . The Triple Alliance ( Tenochtitlan , Texcoco and Tacuba ) had agreed the rite of Floridas Wars , where the game was not making gains , but taking prisoners to the gods ofrendar . Sometimes the sacrificed meat was consumed to achieve a close relationship with the deity he had been offered the rite .
Regarding the Mexica , there are contradictions between the interpretations of the data, but everything points to the identification of a highly developed culture , with great knowledge included astronomy , elaboraci calendrical system of high precision , accompanied the invention of writing and how to enter numbers , glyphs and perform higher mathematics , calculating dates with extraordinary accuracy and reported.
The elaboraci of its buildings and the realization of their work , demonstrate the existence of an organized society , able to coordinate the work of hundreds or thousands of people and the strength of a stable ruling group that gave unity and more cohesion . The accumulated experiences, and ways of life and mentality that were created at that time, is an important result of the idiosyncrasies of the Mexican people today ...
I remember the neighborhood, crossed some trams lìneas cream with green on the sides . His journeys were of Villa de Guadalupe Atzcapotzalco , through Peralvillo Street . They crossed all Tepito and then introduced into a stretch by the neighborhood ahì Lagunilla and rode through Mèxico - Tacuba Causeway to reach Atzcapotzalco . In one of these trams, I asked the operator shall cease singing. Up and I settled into one of the steps of the descent and sang La Cama de Piedra and Pancho Lòpez . I chose this place because from ahì no one saw me as I was very sorry to do that , but I earned some money to pay servìa invite tortillas or soft drinks when the food in my house. The full path to the round and took me an hour and a half to achieve that goal.
- Who bought sodas ? Grandma would ask inquisitive tone . Raùl would answer some of my aunts ...
- You're not stealing anything right?
- Oh, mamà ! - Aunts rebuked him . He did some errands and insurance paid him something. Why would you steal ? ...
Anyway, my grandmother would not like at all that I was singing in the trams. She always said that working for us not lack anything and that we move away from the alley we had to because it was too dangerous. Furthermore we should study and not go from here to allà bums . The trip to Atzcapotzalco if it was removed and there were many pulquerias and drunks. Several traders knew me and I even cared , but it was still dangerous to venture that far. I really loved to buy soft drinks , made me feel big and important to share the fruit of my work , whatever it was . Reached together with the sung as a weight, each refresh cost twenty cents , weight reached me for five. I liked orangechitos ¨ ¨ , the Sidral was producing the Mundet and were very tasty . The store bought the Don Chano having a squat and ugly dog always barked damn , on occasion, I had a slingshot and without anyone noticing, I gave him a resorterazo , but to my bad luck, is I dropped all the soda that had put me in a box and the slingshot league who knows as it enrredaron in the hind legs of the animal and like magic , stretched and handle the bat , I received a tremendous blow to one of my eyes that left me seeing thousands of stars that soon disappeared , several hours , Click Dog !
Life in the Callejon de Carbajal , to me, it was all an entertainment : I played spin , the bearing , the yoyo , we changed the Coca Cola bottle caps and some twenty cents on delivery trucks were solid plastic red and Duncan called , were very nice and made one of them was High Marks in the gang . We also played the bones , that sustraìmos to eat apricots and water that we painted with colorful pills, had them red, green and yellow . The Reds were better than the others and were betting flown with some coin throwing . But what fascinated me more was playing marbles : We were doing a circle and we would put the entry that could be from a marble until we wanted and could only play to have that input. It was to take as many marbles as we could , without being trapped to hit the we wanted out of the circle, if our permanecia marble in the circle, we said ¨ ¨ Choking and we lost all the marbles what we would have bet , with no opportunity to continue playing .. . at other times , we played the Hoyito ¨ ¨ which was to make the marble into a hole and then one became a powerful ¨ ¨ bully that just hit another marble , could be made of it , always taking the game to that failed by not giving the opponent the marble and then another access the dimple could try changing the bully and so on. In the game hollered : do not steal ¨ ¨ hand consisting reach out more to the account to pull and Safin safado ¨ , ¨ is not forgiven when accidentally shot to make the marble , safaba them the finger. And if someone accidentally put the dimple again hollered : Choking ¨ ¨ and lost the game ... Time transcurria retreating quickly without realizing it and my grandmother was going to look for me in zapes for not doing homework , as if that was important or was worth more than my game ... Among my memories , I still have some of my fantastically beautiful agates marbles that were called , made in Germany of a solid glass ... Damn task , awful school ! Què demons were putting it head to my grandmother ? Damn !
The alley was composed of several neighborhoods : the 7th , the 10th and 14th , in the Later lived the more seasoned and was the largest population. Instead ours consisted of only five houses whose doors faced the street and had two inside , in the back yard .
One belonged to Doña Marina , woman beautiful , full-bodied , slender, with huge breasts , who kept making in a small room , face creams , hand and body , then irlas to sell to any side that bought them , gossip ferrying everywhere, it was a kind of human courier . To that lady , always with his whole face looked greasy , smeared with masks of all kinds. He liked to talk much , and seemed all of a macaw as he spent with my aunts gossiping , just by my grandmother putting stun very bad , which harmed it to me , because then the permits to go out and play or just plain scarce there were none.
- That woman , not for her mouth really upset my grandmother was saying . And you to top - referring to my aunts - that make the second , or believe that they will increase their insults beauty creams such ... Whatever you slather lard in the face, smooth skin puts No? - topping .
It was a small silence
- But mamà , No, by God ! - The naive quickly defended my aunts . These creams are very good and you because you drop it really bad, but you should also use tù , your skin is very battered , look in the mirror , you look more large old you ...
That kind of comment ', too gorged to my grandmother and things got ant color in the house , I just reached to cover my eyes with my hands , oh, my aunts ...
- Time enough for me to have, but to sleep ! Cried my grandmother very strong lack of sleep that I post for a while, just a without creams creams ! Right, vanidosillas ?
- Yes, always defeated mamà - finalized my dear aunts and I with the risk of not being able to leave ,bah !
The other house , belonged to an old fogy , always dressed in black . Her figure was a witch. They combed the high bun and her hair was frightening colored bun plata.Ese was done in the top of his head, looked more like a nest of birds or snakes . He wore no earrings, or any other adornment . His face was grim and not letting me gesture , his gaze distant . Not really looked like women. He was the owner of all this housing complex . The people were afraid and only watched their slow walk down the alley , he left to do some shopping , which was from time to time . A frequently mì pedia me to make him some errands , like shopping for vegetables and egg shop ¨ ¨ diver who was in Peralvillo Street , near the corner pulqueria , turning to the left. She gave me 20 cents per sent and told me that he did so because I did not steal and will always cumplia with all your orders. To me she was not scared , but I was very impressed by his personal appearance , especially their dress all in black, shoes, socks , skirt, blouse with long sleeves , all in black , his hair gray hair in high bun , all of it and it seemed to me ugly old woman, but that yes , straighter , straighter as a stick and very clean. It gave the print to be alive , because she had, but also to be dead because you did it with much indifference , as if nothing existed, only that which his distant gaze imagined. He got up at five o'clock to sweep and water the floor of the alley that had no pavement. Never, remember, he stopped , nor nobody dared to assault , they can respond with a spell or something, engarrotàndolos ...
The elementary school that I attended , it was set in the colonial exhipodromo Peralvillo - in that colony was to live years later . It was a public school , large, with two patios. Children concurred greater financial resources and other values . My grandmother did not want us to study in our neighborhood , was saying that there were all savages. What happens is that my uncle was called Roberto Ortiz , but I referred to him by his name and so he was , made them grace - in a very unfortunate ocasion , about his school mates terrible Secondary, the that was precisely located on Calle Bias , playing, playing , caught him and made a move on his spine and fractured it ... it was terrible all that, my grandmother sued the Director of the school and students were expelled campus . In that case I have very fuzzy memories , was even smaller , although I remember my uncle harness had to wear for a long time.
The primary schedule , was 8 in the morning , at 12.30 Last news . I had and I picked my aunts , Chela and Rosita . Crossed Round roundabout and then we took the path of Calzada de Guadalupe and since we introduced us Peralvillo the street in the neighborhood. Nearby, there were several railways and some cars parked ahì no longer operating or were in reapraciòn . The whole area , say from the back of the Barrio de Tepito , were solar , where many beggars or vagrants loitering . Now ahì , buildings are built Tlatelolco Unit , but formerly , in my època , were a kind of railroad coach yard of the station Buena Vista that was located next to the Colonia Guerrero, just down the bridge Nonoalco - Tlatelolco , to the left. It was less risky , take the roundabout way Round and then continue towards Peralvillo to go straight , saving a bit of time, but having to travel on these vacant lots and highly dangerous . Coming into the alley , I felt like a fish in the water and the first thing to was to leave my backpack to my aunts and go straight to the vicinity of 14 - which incidentally smelled really bad , having the toilet at the entrance - to see Dona Paola at that hour , more or less one in the afternoon, I was doing some sopes for food ¨ ¨ Tanis , his son who came as both. The neighborhood of 14 , was very large, had a large wooden gate at the entrance , which opened permanecia all day but at night it closed and bolted and latecomers , had to pay a fee to the custodian for let them enter . The toilets were just ahì - houses had no bathroom , in a space between the entrance and courtyard , so that the odor be ventilated with the air stream , but the truth is more well spread and was impregnated in the walls. It was tremendous stuff. Then was still a large courtyard, which had a large laundry center with a communal pool , where ladies kneeling , with aluminum cans , the kind where sardines packed , taking the water to take her laundry throwing it to the were washing clothes . Around the large courtyard , were the houses, were some rooms , not very large , with its front door, a small space of about four steps and then the square room , high ceiling , which barely fit a small dining with chairs , a cabinet and a small table , with a loft above for the beds. No room for the stove , a grill in case oil or gas. That was all . There were many rooms like that in the whole neighborhood , which had a second courtyard , as wide as the first, but no sink for washing clothes. That court used it to make their parties and gatherings ...
Dona Paola, took out his portable stove and griddle , and put out the coffee table and chairs and you find in the outer space, we ate their riquisisimos sopes . I really really liked the red sauce . Torteba tortilla with their hands, to plump and then placed them in the pan until cocian . Then placed them in a tortilla wrapped in a red napkin , thus avoiding to cool . When it came Taniz ¨ ¨ pulled tortillas and gave them some pinching all around , to prevent spilling the sauce, which could be green or red onion placed them and their cheese, those were the amazing sopes , Dona Paola .
- Have you got , drone ? - Told me . I did not know I wanted to say with that word. She just laughed out loud more . Then came the Taniz ¨ ¨ which was one of my idols in the neighborhood , was very good for hitting , there was no one to win and that there were others in the alley ', too good to fight. I was their prefridos powerful and felt good to be your friend . Nobody messed with me , just my age or a little more big , but nobody abused me , because of my friendship with him. ¨ ¨ Taniz company working in a Electrical parts , had like 23 years , was strong and handsome, his skin was not brown , but reddish , many girls sought him , but he was very serious and well behaved , did not smoke , or drink , to much exercise. He hardly spoke , nothing more is sonrreia with my stitches and your mamà all the time I said: Zangano and laughter were thrown from both ...
The other neighborhoods, the 7 and 10 , were much better presented . The best was that of 7 , even on our own. Had its big wooden gate , a spacious entrance hallway , your yard and the houses were much more spacious with two or three bedrooms and private bathroom included. Tenants if they wanted to , they could make their loft . Some rooms facing the street . In that neighborhood , bought some ice cubes flavored with a stick in the center, like a paddle, made them an old woman who lived alone. The gave five cents . In one of these houses , my godmother lived Delfina . You could enter your home , on the patio or on the street. We almost , we lived across from her. It is engaged in the purchase and sale of objects lend. Also advises guess luck and to clean with herbs and concoctions and was selling candles for love affairs and to have money. My godmother, was fat , fat , tall, dark complexion and short hair silver. It was ugly , her round face with its black ojotes , large earrings and always very clean and arregladita . He had at your disposal several people who helped them in all personal matters , one was mamà Sergio and the other , an adopted daughter , Irene . Sergio was like his personal secretary who was receiving customers , but really no help at all and if you spend money . René was also a black man , another adopted son , brother of Irene , which was very studious, attending the National Polytechnic , yet also very rebellious and annoying , bothered me that character. I always tried to hide him to avoid it. My godmother had more than enough money . He worked hard and apparently did so well, as he had plenty of money to lend up to revenues. It helped us to buy food on several occasions. She was my godmother , that my grandmother had said no worth, because he had been in groups with other children and adults not baptized ... for me . Delfina Godmother represented a powerful magical being dominated all other dimensions and spirits. Knew always supported us throughout, despite His character hard , bossy and tax ... I wanted to love my godmother Delfinita , admired ...
10 The neighborhood was a two-story building . Had two departments in front, one on each side of the iron door entry . Inside, the hallways were coming and each of the sides the doors of the houses that were spacious with a small patio and internal stairs to climb to sgundo floor. That construcciòn inside, seemed a dark maze , but was well laid out . In one of the departments of the entrance, lived mamà Kiko and Dona Paula . Kiko was a worker in a candy and chocolate company called Lux . Had his pickup truck , one of those big closed , where carrying their products to supply to all the local shops . Whenever I approached to greet him, regaled me candy. Cylinders were about five feet , with a white dial was turning . I liked the yellow and red , those were the more tasty , people frequently annoyed them . They were northerners, and tall white boys made life heavy . Kiko , would need something like 25 years. Galan was harassed and the girls a lot, that lit the boys in the neighborhood who did not lose the opportunity to be, teasing and fighting with èl azuzàndolo for . He was strong, the load cases we had developed his body. But he never fought them , despite a flat Last news broke the windshield of his truck . He was very cautious and wise that attack in groups and if they could live up to it cemerìan . Better to take her along with them , ignore them and put a lot of distance .
On occasion, to come home from school , I went to the alley to play. Had passed to the house of Taniz ¨ ¨ and try to observe if the sopes were ready . From the laundry , I saw Dona Paola, had not even taken the griddle , it looked like it was not at home, which made me strange ; also advises that upon entering the neighborhood , laundry ladies , I remained seeing so rare and aggressive faces . That's why I retired immediately and better I got out of there . Being playing marbles with my friends , he suddenly heard a very loud screams and ran many ladies and men from the neighborhood of 14 , armed with sticks and belts , while another group of people ', too equally armed aparecian , running from the vicinity of 10 and 7 . They clashed against each other in the middle of the street, but there was so much confusion, that beat against each other , no longer knowing who assaulted . It is assumed that the fight was the 14th against 7 , supported these by 10 . But when blows and blows , were all against all ... It was a fight that lasted several minutes. The show was huge , surprise , very interesting and very exciting , but also sad. Of course there were several wounded. Came the Red Cross ambulances and police cars, because Don Chano , had telephoned them from your store. Nobody could believe as live and survive in the neighborhood. I hardly had time to gather my marbles at how quickly it all happened. It is assumed that there was an organization civilized , but the truth is that we lived as barbaric warriors , cuidàdandonos each other daily, with many gaps and multiple needs in a Mèxico trying at all costs to be peaceful and forward, but I think hardened our past condemned us to be the ones we were very quarrelsome , not knowing that would fight or why, as if flowery wars tratra to catch prisoners and offer to feed the gods ... We never knew the reason for the fight in the alley, several of the injured were my friends and I feel really bad and sad , our motto was every man for himself !
In the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century , the two great powers of those then in the Old World , the papacy and the Empires , lose strength . A new class, the bourgeoisie, will step in and will start to take shape capitalism , growing trade and cities: is the era of innovations and discoveries . Declines in a stage of obscurantism , but do not disappear servitude or the Inquisition against heretics and starts alongside the modern age : Progress, comunication , reason and humanism, make an appearance in all its glory . They appear in the picture , Dante , Petrarch , Giotto Bottichelli , Lorenzo de Medici , Torquemada , Leonardo da Vinci , Michelangelo, Raphael , Machiavelli . We develop an intellectual and artistic movement inspired by classical antiquity. Appears print. It is the uprising of the humanity of those directions, against feudal regulation and rigidity . It is the first flight of the human being, to the enjoyment of life , to knowledge , to trust in themselves. It investigates and boldly expresses the truth of life and death, away from the concept of God and the Bible, as had happened for a long time in the Middle Ages based on the Scholastica , alchemy and astrology ...
In our American territories , running the year 1440, Nezahualcoyotl ( Coyote fasting ) , lord of Texcoco , poet, scholar and architect , brings her creations and writings, highlighting the reflections which makes about life :
¨ Do they really live on earth?
not forever on earth : Just a little here.
Jade even breaks
gold even breaks
plumage even tears Quetzal
not forever on earth : Just a little here ¨
The Mexica Tenochcas , my ancestors , were the group Nahuatl more important in prehispanic Mexico. Came from Aztlan (place of whiteness or place of herons ) . It was a village in actions and deeds worthy of admiration . They were heroic and made their best efforts to adverse situations and dangerous . Power were more powerful in Mesoamerica , carriers of the great cultures of the American continent to conquer territory by venturing outside their natural regions , reaching beyond territories Guatemala and Honduras . They were lovers of myths , legends , astrology , books , dance , music and poetry .
The basic organizational form was the Calpulli . Consisted of a clan or group of families , which used to have a common ancestor and were engaged in trades such as goldsmith , stone carving , textiles , medicine , commerce and agriculture . Their members , working closely with each other and are mutually protected . The government of the community was in the hands of a calpullec selected from families contituyendo total command . The land was mostly owned by the Calpulli . The plots calpullec handed it to the heads of families. Vivian of your product, but they could not sell or cultivate stop . Some part of the manufactoring , was intended to support public services , religious or administrative purposes. On this basis was built across the social pyramid was developed rather quickly. With that power , strengthened warrior aristocracy and administrative work of peasants lived obliged to pay taxes to the government. There were slaves , mostly prisoners of war, destined for sacrifice to the gods. Other , not to cover their debts to pay. Those who had committed a crime and those who had sold themselves , to be in misery. That happened when little food or droughts. The slaves had to do work for the ruling class and deliver products of their crops , as well as build palaces and temples.
The city of Tenochtitlan , Aztec seat of power , was a stunning beauty , built on pyramidal or conical bases . It was embellished by several pyramids coated paintings that dominated the red and blue colors . These buildings , uniques in the world at that time , stood up everywhere, like the Templo Mayor , now located in the city center , next to the Cathedral. There, was found Coatlicue , mother of Huitzilopochtli , chief god of the Aztecs . His head is provided formed by two snakes , her skirt has woven several snakes and feet symbolize claws represent natural forces of life and death and the unity of the world .
The rulers built palaces, lived independently. There were also popular housing construction , where several families lived . These rooms had a large courtyard in the center that operated as a meeting to discuss or conduct festivals or ceremonies . Outside the city , were the homes of ordinary people and beyond, the huts of strangers . The peasants lived difrentes scattered areas in the countryside .
In the main urban center , central axes were called roads that led from the city center , towards the four cardinal points ...
The Aztecs came to dominate herbalism outstandingly identifying and exploiting many plants used for medicinal and healing . They met and power plants that used hallucinogens in their rituals and religious ceremonies , to enter comunication with their gods. Temaxcal baths ( steam temple ) were rescued and were handled by witches and sorcerers , ahì medicinal plants used directly or hallucinogenic power ... They were very superstitious , applied , magic, and astrology clean . Believed that the life of the people was governed by the date of his birth and the position of the planets were days and other nefarious favorable for certain activities and could choose suitable dates to perform safely. Hence the importance of the Aztec Calendar to make decisions. They believed in many gods governing different aspects of nature and human life.
The Mexican educaciòn was differentiated by social class. Children at the age of six, were prepared in the Tepochcalli : They played simple tasks. Older age , they are trained to be warriors , brave and obedient. The girls were preparing to perform domestic tasks and lead a modest life . The sons of noblemen , attended the Calmecac , get an education to carry out the functions of government and command. There were also , homes ridge ( cuicacalli ) , stereo and dance. The educational ideal was: Mature man in heart ¨ firm as stone , Heart strong as a tree trunk , face wise ¨ ...
For the Mexica - Tenochca important rite was that of human sacrifice performed to please the gods , feed or send messages : They were warriors captured in wars. Every year in Tenochtitlan were sacrificed thousands of prisoners , so catering to Huitzilopochtli : Hot Tortillas ¨ ¨ (warriors slaughtered ) for when you want and eat he pleased . The Triple Alliance ( Tenochtitlan , Texcoco and Tacuba ) had agreed the rite of Floridas Wars , where the game was not making gains , but taking prisoners to the gods ofrendar . Sometimes the sacrificed meat was consumed to achieve a close relationship with the deity he had been offered the rite .
Regarding the Mexica , there are contradictions between the interpretations of the data, but everything points to the identification of a highly developed culture , with great knowledge included astronomy , elaboraci calendrical system of high precision , accompanied the invention of writing and how to enter numbers , glyphs and perform higher mathematics , calculating dates with extraordinary accuracy and reported.
The elaboraci of its buildings and the realization of their work , demonstrate the existence of an organized society , able to coordinate the work of hundreds or thousands of people and the strength of a stable ruling group that gave unity and more cohesion . The accumulated experiences, and ways of life and mentality that were created at that time, is an important result of the idiosyncrasies of the Mexican people today ...
I remember the neighborhood, crossed some trams lìneas cream with green on the sides . His journeys were of Villa de Guadalupe Atzcapotzalco , through Peralvillo Street . They crossed all Tepito and then introduced into a stretch by the neighborhood ahì Lagunilla and rode through Mèxico - Tacuba Causeway to reach Atzcapotzalco . In one of these trams, I asked the operator shall cease singing. Up and I settled into one of the steps of the descent and sang La Cama de Piedra and Pancho Lòpez . I chose this place because from ahì no one saw me as I was very sorry to do that , but I earned some money to pay servìa invite tortillas or soft drinks when the food in my house. The full path to the round and took me an hour and a half to achieve that goal.
- Who bought sodas ? Grandma would ask inquisitive tone . Raùl would answer some of my aunts ...
- You're not stealing anything right?
- Oh, mamà ! - Aunts rebuked him . He did some errands and insurance paid him something. Why would you steal ? ...
Anyway, my grandmother would not like at all that I was singing in the trams. She always said that working for us not lack anything and that we move away from the alley we had to because it was too dangerous. Furthermore we should study and not go from here to allà bums . The trip to Atzcapotzalco if it was removed and there were many pulquerias and drunks. Several traders knew me and I even cared , but it was still dangerous to venture that far. I really loved to buy soft drinks , made me feel big and important to share the fruit of my work , whatever it was . Reached together with the sung as a weight, each refresh cost twenty cents , weight reached me for five. I liked orangechitos ¨ ¨ , the Sidral was producing the Mundet and were very tasty . The store bought the Don Chano having a squat and ugly dog always barked damn , on occasion, I had a slingshot and without anyone noticing, I gave him a resorterazo , but to my bad luck, is I dropped all the soda that had put me in a box and the slingshot league who knows as it enrredaron in the hind legs of the animal and like magic , stretched and handle the bat , I received a tremendous blow to one of my eyes that left me seeing thousands of stars that soon disappeared , several hours , Click Dog !
Life in the Callejon de Carbajal , to me, it was all an entertainment : I played spin , the bearing , the yoyo , we changed the Coca Cola bottle caps and some twenty cents on delivery trucks were solid plastic red and Duncan called , were very nice and made one of them was High Marks in the gang . We also played the bones , that sustraìmos to eat apricots and water that we painted with colorful pills, had them red, green and yellow . The Reds were better than the others and were betting flown with some coin throwing . But what fascinated me more was playing marbles : We were doing a circle and we would put the entry that could be from a marble until we wanted and could only play to have that input. It was to take as many marbles as we could , without being trapped to hit the we wanted out of the circle, if our permanecia marble in the circle, we said ¨ ¨ Choking and we lost all the marbles what we would have bet , with no opportunity to continue playing .. . at other times , we played the Hoyito ¨ ¨ which was to make the marble into a hole and then one became a powerful ¨ ¨ bully that just hit another marble , could be made of it , always taking the game to that failed by not giving the opponent the marble and then another access the dimple could try changing the bully and so on. In the game hollered : do not steal ¨ ¨ hand consisting reach out more to the account to pull and Safin safado ¨ , ¨ is not forgiven when accidentally shot to make the marble , safaba them the finger. And if someone accidentally put the dimple again hollered : Choking ¨ ¨ and lost the game ... Time transcurria retreating quickly without realizing it and my grandmother was going to look for me in zapes for not doing homework , as if that was important or was worth more than my game ... Among my memories , I still have some of my fantastically beautiful agates marbles that were called , made in Germany of a solid glass ... Damn task , awful school ! Què demons were putting it head to my grandmother ? Damn !
The alley was composed of several neighborhoods : the 7th , the 10th and 14th , in the Later lived the more seasoned and was the largest population. Instead ours consisted of only five houses whose doors faced the street and had two inside , in the back yard .
One belonged to Doña Marina , woman beautiful , full-bodied , slender, with huge breasts , who kept making in a small room , face creams , hand and body , then irlas to sell to any side that bought them , gossip ferrying everywhere, it was a kind of human courier . To that lady , always with his whole face looked greasy , smeared with masks of all kinds. He liked to talk much , and seemed all of a macaw as he spent with my aunts gossiping , just by my grandmother putting stun very bad , which harmed it to me , because then the permits to go out and play or just plain scarce there were none.
- That woman , not for her mouth really upset my grandmother was saying . And you to top - referring to my aunts - that make the second , or believe that they will increase their insults beauty creams such ... Whatever you slather lard in the face, smooth skin puts No? - topping .
It was a small silence
- But mamà , No, by God ! - The naive quickly defended my aunts . These creams are very good and you because you drop it really bad, but you should also use tù , your skin is very battered , look in the mirror , you look more large old you ...
That kind of comment ', too gorged to my grandmother and things got ant color in the house , I just reached to cover my eyes with my hands , oh, my aunts ...
- Time enough for me to have, but to sleep ! Cried my grandmother very strong lack of sleep that I post for a while, just a without creams creams ! Right, vanidosillas ?
- Yes, always defeated mamà - finalized my dear aunts and I with the risk of not being able to leave ,bah !
The other house , belonged to an old fogy , always dressed in black . Her figure was a witch. They combed the high bun and her hair was frightening colored bun plata.Ese was done in the top of his head, looked more like a nest of birds or snakes . He wore no earrings, or any other adornment . His face was grim and not letting me gesture , his gaze distant . Not really looked like women. He was the owner of all this housing complex . The people were afraid and only watched their slow walk down the alley , he left to do some shopping , which was from time to time . A frequently mì pedia me to make him some errands , like shopping for vegetables and egg shop ¨ ¨ diver who was in Peralvillo Street , near the corner pulqueria , turning to the left. She gave me 20 cents per sent and told me that he did so because I did not steal and will always cumplia with all your orders. To me she was not scared , but I was very impressed by his personal appearance , especially their dress all in black, shoes, socks , skirt, blouse with long sleeves , all in black , his hair gray hair in high bun , all of it and it seemed to me ugly old woman, but that yes , straighter , straighter as a stick and very clean. It gave the print to be alive , because she had, but also to be dead because you did it with much indifference , as if nothing existed, only that which his distant gaze imagined. He got up at five o'clock to sweep and water the floor of the alley that had no pavement. Never, remember, he stopped , nor nobody dared to assault , they can respond with a spell or something, engarrotàndolos ...
The elementary school that I attended , it was set in the colonial exhipodromo Peralvillo - in that colony was to live years later . It was a public school , large, with two patios. Children concurred greater financial resources and other values . My grandmother did not want us to study in our neighborhood , was saying that there were all savages. What happens is that my uncle was called Roberto Ortiz , but I referred to him by his name and so he was , made them grace - in a very unfortunate ocasion , about his school mates terrible Secondary, the that was precisely located on Calle Bias , playing, playing , caught him and made a move on his spine and fractured it ... it was terrible all that, my grandmother sued the Director of the school and students were expelled campus . In that case I have very fuzzy memories , was even smaller , although I remember my uncle harness had to wear for a long time.
The primary schedule , was 8 in the morning , at 12.30 Last news . I had and I picked my aunts , Chela and Rosita . Crossed Round roundabout and then we took the path of Calzada de Guadalupe and since we introduced us Peralvillo the street in the neighborhood. Nearby, there were several railways and some cars parked ahì no longer operating or were in reapraciòn . The whole area , say from the back of the Barrio de Tepito , were solar , where many beggars or vagrants loitering . Now ahì , buildings are built Tlatelolco Unit , but formerly , in my època , were a kind of railroad coach yard of the station Buena Vista that was located next to the Colonia Guerrero, just down the bridge Nonoalco - Tlatelolco , to the left. It was less risky , take the roundabout way Round and then continue towards Peralvillo to go straight , saving a bit of time, but having to travel on these vacant lots and highly dangerous . Coming into the alley , I felt like a fish in the water and the first thing to was to leave my backpack to my aunts and go straight to the vicinity of 14 - which incidentally smelled really bad , having the toilet at the entrance - to see Dona Paola at that hour , more or less one in the afternoon, I was doing some sopes for food ¨ ¨ Tanis , his son who came as both. The neighborhood of 14 , was very large, had a large wooden gate at the entrance , which opened permanecia all day but at night it closed and bolted and latecomers , had to pay a fee to the custodian for let them enter . The toilets were just ahì - houses had no bathroom , in a space between the entrance and courtyard , so that the odor be ventilated with the air stream , but the truth is more well spread and was impregnated in the walls. It was tremendous stuff. Then was still a large courtyard, which had a large laundry center with a communal pool , where ladies kneeling , with aluminum cans , the kind where sardines packed , taking the water to take her laundry throwing it to the were washing clothes . Around the large courtyard , were the houses, were some rooms , not very large , with its front door, a small space of about four steps and then the square room , high ceiling , which barely fit a small dining with chairs , a cabinet and a small table , with a loft above for the beds. No room for the stove , a grill in case oil or gas. That was all . There were many rooms like that in the whole neighborhood , which had a second courtyard , as wide as the first, but no sink for washing clothes. That court used it to make their parties and gatherings ...
Dona Paola, took out his portable stove and griddle , and put out the coffee table and chairs and you find in the outer space, we ate their riquisisimos sopes . I really really liked the red sauce . Torteba tortilla with their hands, to plump and then placed them in the pan until cocian . Then placed them in a tortilla wrapped in a red napkin , thus avoiding to cool . When it came Taniz ¨ ¨ pulled tortillas and gave them some pinching all around , to prevent spilling the sauce, which could be green or red onion placed them and their cheese, those were the amazing sopes , Dona Paola .
- Have you got , drone ? - Told me . I did not know I wanted to say with that word. She just laughed out loud more . Then came the Taniz ¨ ¨ which was one of my idols in the neighborhood , was very good for hitting , there was no one to win and that there were others in the alley ', too good to fight. I was their prefridos powerful and felt good to be your friend . Nobody messed with me , just my age or a little more big , but nobody abused me , because of my friendship with him. ¨ ¨ Taniz company working in a Electrical parts , had like 23 years , was strong and handsome, his skin was not brown , but reddish , many girls sought him , but he was very serious and well behaved , did not smoke , or drink , to much exercise. He hardly spoke , nothing more is sonrreia with my stitches and your mamà all the time I said: Zangano and laughter were thrown from both ...
The other neighborhoods, the 7 and 10 , were much better presented . The best was that of 7 , even on our own. Had its big wooden gate , a spacious entrance hallway , your yard and the houses were much more spacious with two or three bedrooms and private bathroom included. Tenants if they wanted to , they could make their loft . Some rooms facing the street . In that neighborhood , bought some ice cubes flavored with a stick in the center, like a paddle, made them an old woman who lived alone. The gave five cents . In one of these houses , my godmother lived Delfina . You could enter your home , on the patio or on the street. We almost , we lived across from her. It is engaged in the purchase and sale of objects lend. Also advises guess luck and to clean with herbs and concoctions and was selling candles for love affairs and to have money. My godmother, was fat , fat , tall, dark complexion and short hair silver. It was ugly , her round face with its black ojotes , large earrings and always very clean and arregladita . He had at your disposal several people who helped them in all personal matters , one was mamà Sergio and the other , an adopted daughter , Irene . Sergio was like his personal secretary who was receiving customers , but really no help at all and if you spend money . René was also a black man , another adopted son , brother of Irene , which was very studious, attending the National Polytechnic , yet also very rebellious and annoying , bothered me that character. I always tried to hide him to avoid it. My godmother had more than enough money . He worked hard and apparently did so well, as he had plenty of money to lend up to revenues. It helped us to buy food on several occasions. She was my godmother , that my grandmother had said no worth, because he had been in groups with other children and adults not baptized ... for me . Delfina Godmother represented a powerful magical being dominated all other dimensions and spirits. Knew always supported us throughout, despite His character hard , bossy and tax ... I wanted to love my godmother Delfinita , admired ...
10 The neighborhood was a two-story building . Had two departments in front, one on each side of the iron door entry . Inside, the hallways were coming and each of the sides the doors of the houses that were spacious with a small patio and internal stairs to climb to sgundo floor. That construcciòn inside, seemed a dark maze , but was well laid out . In one of the departments of the entrance, lived mamà Kiko and Dona Paula . Kiko was a worker in a candy and chocolate company called Lux . Had his pickup truck , one of those big closed , where carrying their products to supply to all the local shops . Whenever I approached to greet him, regaled me candy. Cylinders were about five feet , with a white dial was turning . I liked the yellow and red , those were the more tasty , people frequently annoyed them . They were northerners, and tall white boys made life heavy . Kiko , would need something like 25 years. Galan was harassed and the girls a lot, that lit the boys in the neighborhood who did not lose the opportunity to be, teasing and fighting with èl azuzàndolo for . He was strong, the load cases we had developed his body. But he never fought them , despite a flat Last news broke the windshield of his truck . He was very cautious and wise that attack in groups and if they could live up to it cemerìan . Better to take her along with them , ignore them and put a lot of distance .
On occasion, to come home from school , I went to the alley to play. Had passed to the house of Taniz ¨ ¨ and try to observe if the sopes were ready . From the laundry , I saw Dona Paola, had not even taken the griddle , it looked like it was not at home, which made me strange ; also advises that upon entering the neighborhood , laundry ladies , I remained seeing so rare and aggressive faces . That's why I retired immediately and better I got out of there . Being playing marbles with my friends , he suddenly heard a very loud screams and ran many ladies and men from the neighborhood of 14 , armed with sticks and belts , while another group of people ', too equally armed aparecian , running from the vicinity of 10 and 7 . They clashed against each other in the middle of the street, but there was so much confusion, that beat against each other , no longer knowing who assaulted . It is assumed that the fight was the 14th against 7 , supported these by 10 . But when blows and blows , were all against all ... It was a fight that lasted several minutes. The show was huge , surprise , very interesting and very exciting. Of course there were several wounded. Came the Red Cross ambulances and police cars, because Don Chano , had telephoned them from your store. Nobody could believe as live and survive in the neighborhood. I hardly had time to gather my marbles at how quickly it all happened. It is assumed that there was an organization civilized , but the truth is that we lived as warriors , cuidàdandonos each other daily, with many gaps and multiple needs in a Mèxico trying at all costs to be peaceful and forward, but I think our past seasoned condemned us to be the ones we were very quarrelsome , without knowing what or why would fight as if it tratra flowery wars to capture prisoners and offer to feed the gods ... We never knew the reason for the fight in the alley , our motto was every man for himself !
In our American territories , running the year 1440, Nezahualcoyotl ( Coyote fasting ) , lord of Texcoco , poet, scholar and architect , brings her creations and writings, highlighting the reflections which makes about life :
¨ Do they really live on earth?
not forever on earth : Just a little here.
Jade even breaks
gold even breaks
plumage even tears Quetzal
not forever on earth : Just a little here ¨
The Mexica Tenochcas , my ancestors , were the group Nahuatl more important in prehispanic Mexico. Came from Aztlan (place of whiteness or place of herons ) . It was a village in actions and deeds worthy of admiration . They were heroic and made their best efforts to adverse situations and dangerous . Power were more powerful in Mesoamerica , carriers of the great cultures of the American continent to conquer territory by venturing outside their natural regions , reaching beyond territories Guatemala and Honduras . They were lovers of myths , legends , astrology , books , dance , music and poetry .
The basic organizational form was the Calpulli . Consisted of a clan or group of families , which used to have a common ancestor and were engaged in trades such as goldsmith , stone carving , textiles , medicine , commerce and agriculture . Their members , working closely with each other and are mutually protected . The government of the community was in the hands of a calpullec selected from families contituyendo total command . The land was mostly owned by the Calpulli . The plots calpullec handed it to the heads of families. Vivian of your product, but they could not sell or cultivate stop . Some part of the manufactoring , was intended to support public services , religious or administrative purposes. On this basis was built across the social pyramid was developed rather quickly. With that power , strengthened warrior aristocracy and administrative work of peasants lived obliged to pay taxes to the government. There were slaves , mostly prisoners of war, destined for sacrifice to the gods. Other , not to cover their debts to pay. Those who had committed a crime and those who had sold themselves , to be in misery. That happened when little food or droughts. The slaves had to do work for the ruling class and deliver products of their crops , as well as build palaces and temples.
The city of Tenochtitlan , Aztec seat of power , was a stunning beauty , built on pyramidal or conical bases . It was embellished by several pyramids coated paintings that dominated the red and blue colors . These buildings , uniques in the world at that time , stood up everywhere, like the Templo Mayor , now located in the city center , next to the Cathedral. There, was found Coatlicue , mother of Huitzilopochtli , chief god of the Aztecs . His head is provided formed by two snakes , her skirt has woven several snakes and feet symbolize claws represent natural forces of life and death and the unity of the world .
The rulers built palaces, lived independently. There were also popular housing construction , where several families lived . These rooms had a large courtyard in the center that operated as a meeting to discuss or conduct festivals or ceremonies . Outside the city , were the homes of ordinary people and beyond, the huts of strangers . The peasants lived difrentes scattered areas in the countryside .
In the main urban center , central axes were called roads that led from the city center , towards the four cardinal points ...
The Aztecs came to dominate herbalism outstandingly identifying and exploiting many plants used for medicinal and healing . They met and power plants that used hallucinogens in their rituals and religious ceremonies , to enter comunication with their gods. Temaxcal baths ( steam temple ) were rescued and were handled by witches and sorcerers , ahì medicinal plants used directly or hallucinogenic power ... They were very superstitious , applied , magic, and astrology clean . Believed that the life of the people was governed by the date of his birth and the position of the planets were days and other nefarious favorable for certain activities and could choose suitable dates to perform safely. Hence the importance of the Aztec Calendar to make decisions. They believed in many gods governing different aspects of nature and human life.
The Mexican educaciòn was differentiated by social class. Children at the age of six, were prepared in the Tepochcalli : They played simple tasks. Older age , they are trained to be warriors , brave and obedient. The girls were preparing to perform domestic tasks and lead a modest life . The sons of noblemen , attended the Calmecac , get an education to carry out the functions of government and command. There were also , homes ridge ( cuicacalli ) , stereo and dance. The educational ideal was: Mature man in heart ¨ firm as stone , Heart strong as a tree trunk , face wise ¨ ...
For the Mexica - Tenochca important rite was that of human sacrifice performed to please the gods , feed or send messages : They were warriors captured in wars. Every year in Tenochtitlan were sacrificed thousands of prisoners , so catering to Huitzilopochtli : Hot Tortillas ¨ ¨ (warriors slaughtered ) for when you want and eat he pleased . The Triple Alliance ( Tenochtitlan , Texcoco and Tacuba ) had agreed the rite of Floridas Wars , where the game was not making gains , but taking prisoners to the gods ofrendar . Sometimes the sacrificed meat was consumed to achieve a close relationship with the deity he had been offered the rite .
Regarding the Mexica , there are contradictions between the interpretations of the data, but everything points to the identification of a highly developed culture , with great knowledge included astronomy , elaboraci calendrical system of high precision , accompanied the invention of writing and how to enter numbers , glyphs and perform higher mathematics , calculating dates with extraordinary accuracy and reported.
The elaboraci of its buildings and the realization of their work , demonstrate the existence of an organized society , able to coordinate the work of hundreds or thousands of people and the strength of a stable ruling group that gave unity and more cohesion . The accumulated experiences, and ways of life and mentality that were created at that time, is an important result of the idiosyncrasies of the Mexican people today ...
I remember the neighborhood, crossed some trams lìneas cream with green on the sides . His journeys were of Villa de Guadalupe Atzcapotzalco , through Peralvillo Street . They crossed all Tepito and then introduced into a stretch by the neighborhood ahì Lagunilla and rode through Mèxico - Tacuba Causeway to reach Atzcapotzalco . In one of these trams, I asked the operator shall cease singing. Up and I settled into one of the steps of the descent and sang La Cama de Piedra and Pancho Lòpez . I chose this place because from ahì no one saw me as I was very sorry to do that , but I earned some money to pay servìa invite tortillas or soft drinks when the food in my house. The full path to the round and took me an hour and a half to achieve that goal.
- Who bought sodas ? Grandma would ask inquisitive tone . Raùl would answer some of my aunts ...
- You're not stealing anything right?
- Oh, mamà ! - Aunts rebuked him . He did some errands and insurance paid him something. Why would you steal ? ...
Anyway, my grandmother would not like at all that I was singing in the trams. She always said that working for us not lack anything and that we move away from the alley we had to because it was too dangerous. Furthermore we should study and not go from here to allà bums . The trip to Atzcapotzalco if it was removed and there were many pulquerias and drunks. Several traders knew me and I even cared , but it was still dangerous to venture that far. I really loved to buy soft drinks , made me feel big and important to share the fruit of my work , whatever it was . Reached together with the sung as a weight, each refresh cost twenty cents , weight reached me for five. I liked orangechitos ¨ ¨ , the Sidral was producing the Mundet and were very tasty . The store bought the Don Chano having a squat and ugly dog always barked damn , on occasion, I had a slingshot and without anyone noticing, I gave him a resorterazo , but to my bad luck, is I dropped all the soda that had put me in a box and the slingshot league who knows as it enrredaron in the hind legs of the animal and like magic , stretched and handle the bat , I received a tremendous blow to one of my eyes that left me seeing thousands of stars that soon disappeared , several hours , Click Dog !
Life in the Callejon de Carbajal , to me, it was all an entertainment : I played spin , the bearing , the yoyo , we changed the Coca Cola bottle caps and some twenty cents on delivery trucks were solid plastic red and Duncan called , were very nice and made one of them was High Marks in the gang . We also played the bones , that sustraìmos to eat apricots and water that we painted with colorful pills, had them red, green and yellow . The Reds were better than the others and were betting flown with some coin throwing . But what fascinated me more was playing marbles : We were doing a circle and we would put the entry that could be from a marble until we wanted and could only play to have that input. It was to take as many marbles as we could , without being trapped to hit the we wanted out of the circle, if our permanecia marble in the circle, we said ¨ ¨ Choking and we lost all the marbles what we would have bet , with no opportunity to continue playing .. . at other times , we played the Hoyito ¨ ¨ which was to make the marble into a hole and then one became a powerful ¨ ¨ bully that just hit another marble , could be made of it , always taking the game to that failed by not giving the opponent the marble and then another access the dimple could try changing the bully and so on. In the game hollered : do not steal ¨ ¨ hand consisting reach out more to the account to pull and Safin safado ¨ , ¨ is not forgiven when accidentally shot to make the marble , safaba them the finger. And if someone accidentally put the dimple again hollered : Choking ¨ ¨ and lost the game ... Time transcurria retreating quickly without realizing it and my grandmother was going to look for me in zapes for not doing homework , as if that was important or was worth more than my game ... Among my memories , I still have some of my fantastically beautiful agates marbles that were called , made in Germany of a solid glass ... Damn task , awful school ! Què demons were putting it head to my grandmother ? Damn !
The alley was composed of several neighborhoods : the 7th , the 10th and 14th , in the Later lived the more seasoned and was the largest population. Instead ours consisted of only five houses whose doors faced the street and had two inside , in the back yard .
One belonged to Doña Marina , woman beautiful , full-bodied , slender, with huge breasts , who kept making in a small room , face creams , hand and body , then irlas to sell to any side that bought them , gossip ferrying everywhere, it was a kind of human courier . To that lady , always with his whole face looked greasy , smeared with masks of all kinds. He liked to talk much , and seemed all of a macaw as he spent with my aunts gossiping , just by my grandmother putting stun very bad , which harmed it to me , because then the permits to go out and play or just plain scarce there were none.
- That woman , not for her mouth really upset my grandmother was saying . And you to top - referring to my aunts - that make the second , or believe that they will increase their insults beauty creams such ... Whatever you slather lard in the face, smooth skin puts No? - topping .
It was a small silence
- But mamà , No, by God ! - The naive quickly defended my aunts . These creams are very good and you because you drop it really bad, but you should also use tù , your skin is very battered , look in the mirror , you look more large old you ...
That kind of comment ', too gorged to my grandmother and things got ant color in the house , I just reached to cover my eyes with my hands , oh, my aunts ...
- Time enough for me to have, but to sleep ! Cried my grandmother very strong lack of sleep that I post for a while, just a without creams creams ! Right, vanidosillas ?
- Yes, always defeated mamà - finalized my dear aunts and I with the risk of not being able to leave ,bah !
The other house , belonged to an old fogy , always dressed in black . Her figure was a witch. They combed the high bun and her hair was frightening colored bun plata.Ese was done in the top of his head, looked more like a nest of birds or snakes . He wore no earrings, or any other adornment . His face was grim and not letting me gesture , his gaze distant . Not really looked like women. He was the owner of all this housing complex . The people were afraid and only watched their slow walk down the alley , he left to do some shopping , which was from time to time . A frequently mì pedia me to make him some errands , like shopping for vegetables and egg shop ¨ ¨ diver who was in Peralvillo Street , near the corner pulqueria , turning to the left. She gave me 20 cents per sent and told me that he did so because I did not steal and will always cumplia with all your orders. To me she was not scared , but I was very impressed by his personal appearance , especially their dress all in black, shoes, socks , skirt, blouse with long sleeves , all in black , his hair gray hair in high bun , all of it and it seemed to me ugly old woman, but that yes , straighter , straighter as a stick and very clean. It gave the print to be alive , because she had, but also to be dead because you did it with much indifference , as if nothing existed, only that which his distant gaze imagined. He got up at five o'clock to sweep and water the floor of the alley that had no pavement. Never, remember, he stopped , nor nobody dared to assault , they can respond with a spell or something, engarrotàndolos ...
The elementary school that I attended , it was set in the colonial exhipodromo Peralvillo - in that colony was to live years later . It was a public school , large, with two patios. Children concurred greater financial resources and other values . My grandmother did not want us to study in our neighborhood , was saying that there were all savages. What happens is that my uncle was called Roberto Ortiz , but I referred to him by his name and so he was , made them grace - in a very unfortunate ocasion , about his school mates terrible Secondary, the that was precisely located on Calle Bias , playing, playing , caught him and made a move on his spine and fractured it ... it was terrible all that, my grandmother sued the Director of the school and students were expelled campus . In that case I have very fuzzy memories , was even smaller , although I remember my uncle harness had to wear for a long time.
The primary schedule , was 8 in the morning , at 12.30 Last news . I had and I picked my aunts , Chela and Rosita . Crossed Round roundabout and then we took the path of Calzada de Guadalupe and since we introduced us Peralvillo the street in the neighborhood. Nearby, there were several railways and some cars parked ahì no longer operating or were in reapraciòn . The whole area , say from the back of the Barrio de Tepito , were solar , where many beggars or vagrants loitering . Now ahì , buildings are built Tlatelolco Unit , but formerly , in my època , were a kind of railroad coach yard of the station Buena Vista that was located next to the Colonia Guerrero, just down the bridge Nonoalco - Tlatelolco , to the left. It was less risky , take the roundabout way Round and then continue towards Peralvillo to go straight , saving a bit of time, but having to travel on these vacant lots and highly dangerous . Coming into the alley , I felt like a fish in the water and the first thing to was to leave my backpack to my aunts and go straight to the vicinity of 14 - which incidentally smelled really bad , having the toilet at the entrance - to see Dona Paola at that hour , more or less one in the afternoon, I was doing some sopes for food ¨ ¨ Tanis , his son who came as both. The neighborhood of 14 , was very large, had a large wooden gate at the entrance , which opened permanecia all day but at night it closed and bolted and latecomers , had to pay a fee to the custodian for let them enter . The toilets were just ahì - houses had no bathroom , in a space between the entrance and courtyard , so that the odor be ventilated with the air stream , but the truth is more well spread and was impregnated in the walls. It was tremendous stuff. Then was still a large courtyard, which had a large laundry center with a communal pool , where ladies kneeling , with aluminum cans , the kind where sardines packed , taking the water to take her laundry throwing it to the were washing clothes . Around the large courtyard , were the houses, were some rooms , not very large , with its front door, a small space of about four steps and then the square room , high ceiling , which barely fit a small dining with chairs , a cabinet and a small table , with a loft above for the beds. No room for the stove , a grill in case oil or gas. That was all . There were many rooms like that in the whole neighborhood , which had a second courtyard , as wide as the first, but no sink for washing clothes. That court used it to make their parties and gatherings ...
Dona Paola, took out his portable stove and griddle , and put out the coffee table and chairs and you find in the outer space, we ate their riquisisimos sopes . I really really liked the red sauce . Torteba tortilla with their hands, to plump and then placed them in the pan until cocian . Then placed them in a tortilla wrapped in a red napkin , thus avoiding to cool . When it came Taniz ¨ ¨ pulled tortillas and gave them some pinching all around , to prevent spilling the sauce, which could be green or red onion placed them and their cheese, those were the amazing sopes , Dona Paola .
- Have you got , drone ? - Told me . I did not know I wanted to say with that word. She just laughed out loud more . Then came the Taniz ¨ ¨ which was one of my idols in the neighborhood , was very good for hitting , there was no one to win and that there were others in the alley ', too good to fight. I was their prefridos powerful and felt good to be your friend . Nobody messed with me , just my age or a little more big , but nobody abused me , because of my friendship with him. ¨ ¨ Taniz company working in a Electrical parts , had like 23 years , was strong and handsome, his skin was not brown , but reddish , many girls sought him , but he was very serious and well behaved , did not smoke , or drink , to much exercise. He hardly spoke , nothing more is sonrreia with my stitches and your mamà all the time I said: Zangano and laughter were thrown from both ...
The other neighborhoods, the 7 and 10 , were much better presented . The best was that of 7 , even on our own. Had its big wooden gate , a spacious entrance hallway , your yard and the houses were much more spacious with two or three bedrooms and private bathroom included. Tenants if they wanted to , they could make their loft . Some rooms facing the street . In that neighborhood , bought some ice cubes flavored with a stick in the center, like a paddle, made them an old woman who lived alone. The gave five cents . In one of these houses , my godmother lived Delfina . You could enter your home , on the patio or on the street. We almost , we lived across from her. It is engaged in the purchase and sale of objects lend. Also advises guess luck and to clean with herbs and concoctions and was selling candles for love affairs and to have money. My godmother, was fat , fat , tall, dark complexion and short hair silver. It was ugly , her round face with its black ojotes , large earrings and always very clean and arregladita . He had at your disposal several people who helped them in all personal matters , one was mamà Sergio and the other , an adopted daughter , Irene . Sergio was like his personal secretary who was receiving customers , but really no help at all and if you spend money . René was also a black man , another adopted son , brother of Irene , which was very studious, attending the National Polytechnic , yet also very rebellious and annoying , bothered me that character. I always tried to hide him to avoid it. My godmother had more than enough money . He worked hard and apparently did so well, as he had plenty of money to lend up to revenues. It helped us to buy food on several occasions. She was my godmother , that my grandmother had said no worth, because he had been in groups with other children and adults not baptized ... for me . Delfina Godmother represented a powerful magical being dominated all other dimensions and spirits. Knew always supported us throughout, despite His character hard , bossy and tax ... I wanted to love my godmother Delfinita , admired ...
10 The neighborhood was a two-story building . Had two departments in front, one on each side of the iron door entry . Inside, the hallways were coming and each of the sides the doors of the houses that were spacious with a small patio and internal stairs to climb to sgundo floor. That construcciòn inside, seemed a dark maze , but was well laid out . In one of the departments of the entrance, lived mamà Kiko and Dona Paula . Kiko was a worker in a candy and chocolate company called Lux . Had his pickup truck , one of those big closed , where carrying their products to supply to all the local shops . Whenever I approached to greet him, regaled me candy. Cylinders were about five feet , with a white dial was turning . I liked the yellow and red , those were the more tasty , people frequently annoyed them . They were northerners, and tall white boys made life heavy . Kiko , would need something like 25 years. Galan was harassed and the girls a lot, that lit the boys in the neighborhood who did not lose the opportunity to be, teasing and fighting with èl azuzàndolo for . He was strong, the load cases we had developed his body. But he never fought them , despite a flat Last news broke the windshield of his truck . He was very cautious and wise that attack in groups and if they could live up to it cemerìan . Better to take her along with them , ignore them and put a lot of distance .
On occasion, to come home from school , I went to the alley to play. Had passed to the house of Taniz ¨ ¨ and try to observe if the sopes were ready . From the laundry , I saw Dona Paola, had not even taken the griddle , it looked like it was not at home, which made me strange ; also advises that upon entering the neighborhood , laundry ladies , I remained seeing so rare and aggressive faces . That's why I retired immediately and better I got out of there . Being playing marbles with my friends , he suddenly heard a very loud screams and ran many ladies and men from the neighborhood of 14 , armed with sticks and belts , while another group of people ', too equally armed aparecian , running from the vicinity of 10 and 7 . They clashed against each other in the middle of the street, but there was so much confusion, that beat against each other , no longer knowing who assaulted . It is assumed that the fight was the 14th against 7 , supported these by 10 . But when blows and blows , were all against all ... It was a fight that lasted several minutes. The show was huge , surprise , very interesting and very exciting , but also sad. Of course there were several wounded. Came the Red Cross ambulances and police cars, because Don Chano , had telephoned them from your store. Nobody could believe as live and survive in the neighborhood. I hardly had time to gather my marbles at how quickly it all happened. It is assumed that there was an organization civilized , but the truth is that we lived as barbaric warriors , cuidàdandonos each other daily, with many gaps and multiple needs in a Mèxico trying at all costs to be peaceful and forward, but I think hardened our past condemned us to be the ones we were very quarrelsome , not knowing that would fight or why, as if flowery wars tratra to catch prisoners and offer to feed the gods ... We never knew the reason for the fight in the alley, several of the injured were my friends and I feel really bad and sad , our motto was every man for himself !
In the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century , the two great powers of those then in the Old World , the papacy and the Empires , lose strength . A new class, the bourgeoisie, will step in and will start to take shape capitalism , growing trade and cities: is the era of innovations and discoveries . Declines in a stage of obscurantism , but do not disappear servitude or the Inquisition against heretics and starts alongside the modern age : Progress, comunication , reason and humanism, make an appearance in all its glory . They appear in the picture , Dante , Petrarch , Giotto Bottichelli , Lorenzo de Medici , Torquemada , Leonardo da Vinci , Michelangelo, Raphael , Machiavelli . We develop an intellectual and artistic movement inspired by classical antiquity. Appears print. It is the uprising of the humanity of those directions, against feudal regulation and rigidity . It is the first flight of the human being, to the enjoyment of life , to knowledge , to trust in themselves. It investigates and boldly expresses the truth of life and death, away from the concept of God and the Bible, as had happened for a long time in the Middle Ages based on the Scholastica , alchemy and astrology ...
In our American territories , running the year 1440, Nezahualcoyotl ( Coyote fasting ) , lord of Texcoco , poet, scholar and architect , brings her creations and writings, highlighting the reflections which makes about life :
¨ Do they really live on earth?
not forever on earth : Just a little here.
Jade even breaks
gold even breaks
plumage even tears Quetzal
not forever on earth : Just a little here ¨
The Mexica Tenochcas , my ancestors , were the group Nahuatl more important in prehispanic Mexico. Came from Aztlan (place of whiteness or place of herons ) . It was a village in actions and deeds worthy of admiration . They were heroic and made their best efforts to adverse situations and dangerous . Power were more powerful in Mesoamerica , carriers of the great cultures of the American continent to conquer territory by venturing outside their natural regions , reaching beyond territories Guatemala and Honduras . They were lovers of myths , legends , astrology , books , dance , music and poetry .
The basic organizational form was the Calpulli . Consisted of a clan or group of families , which used to have a common ancestor and were engaged in trades such as goldsmith , stone carving , textiles , medicine , commerce and agriculture . Their members , working closely with each other and are mutually protected . The government of the community was in the hands of a calpullec selected from families contituyendo total command . The land was mostly owned by the Calpulli . The plots calpullec handed it to the heads of families. Vivian of your product, but they could not sell or cultivate stop . Some part of the manufactoring , was intended to support public services , religious or administrative purposes. On this basis was built across the social pyramid was developed rather quickly. With that power , strengthened warrior aristocracy and administrative work of peasants lived obliged to pay taxes to the government. There were slaves , mostly prisoners of war, destined for sacrifice to the gods. Other , not to cover their debts to pay. Those who had committed a crime and those who had sold themselves , to be in misery. That happened when little food or droughts. The slaves had to do work for the ruling class and deliver products of their crops , as well as build palaces and temples.
The city of Tenochtitlan , Aztec seat of power , was a stunning beauty , built on pyramidal or conical bases . It was embellished by several pyramids coated paintings that dominated the red and blue colors . These buildings , uniques in the world at that time , stood up everywhere, like the Templo Mayor , now located in the city center , next to the Cathedral. There, was found Coatlicue , mother of Huitzilopochtli , chief god of the Aztecs . His head is provided formed by two snakes , her skirt has woven several snakes and feet symbolize claws represent natural forces of life and death and the unity of the world .
The rulers built palaces, lived independently. There were also popular housing construction , where several families lived . These rooms had a large courtyard in the center that operated as a meeting to discuss or conduct festivals or ceremonies . Outside the city , were the homes of ordinary people and beyond, the huts of strangers . The peasants lived difrentes scattered areas in the countryside .
In the main urban center , central axes were called roads that led from the city center , towards the four cardinal points ...
The Aztecs came to dominate herbalism outstandingly identifying and exploiting many plants used for medicinal and healing . They met and power plants that used hallucinogens in their rituals and religious ceremonies , to enter comunication with their gods. Temaxcal baths ( steam temple ) were rescued and were handled by witches and sorcerers , ahì medicinal plants used directly or hallucinogenic power ... They were very superstitious , applied , magic, and astrology clean . Believed that the life of the people was governed by the date of his birth and the position of the planets were days and other nefarious favorable for certain activities and could choose suitable dates to perform safely. Hence the importance of the Aztec Calendar to make decisions. They believed in many gods governing different aspects of nature and human life.
The Mexican educaciòn was differentiated by social class. Children at the age of six, were prepared in the Tepochcalli : They played simple tasks. Older age , they are trained to be warriors , brave and obedient. The girls were preparing to perform domestic tasks and lead a modest life . The sons of noblemen , attended the Calmecac , get an education to carry out the functions of government and command. There were also , homes ridge ( cuicacalli ) , stereo and dance. The educational ideal was: Mature man in heart ¨ firm as stone , Heart strong as a tree trunk , face wise ¨ ...
For the Mexica - Tenochca important rite was that of human sacrifice performed to please the gods , feed or send messages : They were warriors captured in wars. Every year in Tenochtitlan were sacrificed thousands of prisoners , so catering to Huitzilopochtli : Hot Tortillas ¨ ¨ (warriors slaughtered ) for when you want and eat he pleased . The Triple Alliance ( Tenochtitlan , Texcoco and Tacuba ) had agreed the rite of Floridas Wars , where the game was not making gains , but taking prisoners to the gods ofrendar . Sometimes the sacrificed meat was consumed to achieve a close relationship with the deity he had been offered the rite .
Regarding the Mexica , there are contradictions between the interpretations of the data, but everything points to the identification of a highly developed culture , with great knowledge included astronomy , elaboraci calendrical system of high precision , accompanied the invention of writing and how to enter numbers , glyphs and perform higher mathematics , calculating dates with extraordinary accuracy and reported.
The elaboraci of its buildings and the realization of their work , demonstrate the existence of an organized society , able to coordinate the work of hundreds or thousands of people and the strength of a stable ruling group that gave unity and more cohesion . The accumulated experiences, and ways of life and mentality that were created at that time, is an important result of the idiosyncrasies of the Mexican people today ...
I remember the neighborhood, crossed some trams lìneas cream with green on the sides . His journeys were of Villa de Guadalupe Atzcapotzalco , through Peralvillo Street . They crossed all Tepito and then introduced into a stretch by the neighborhood ahì Lagunilla and rode through Mèxico - Tacuba Causeway to reach Atzcapotzalco . In one of these trams, I asked the operator shall cease singing. Up and I settled into one of the steps of the descent and sang La Cama de Piedra and Pancho Lòpez . I chose this place because from ahì no one saw me as I was very sorry to do that , but I earned some money to pay servìa invite tortillas or soft drinks when the food in my house. The full path to the round and took me an hour and a half to achieve that goal.
- Who bought sodas ? Grandma would ask inquisitive tone . Raùl would answer some of my aunts ...
- You're not stealing anything right?
- Oh, mamà ! - Aunts rebuked him . He did some errands and insurance paid him something. Why would you steal ? ...
Anyway, my grandmother would not like at all that I was singing in the trams. She always said that working for us not lack anything and that we move away from the alley we had to because it was too dangerous. Furthermore we should study and not go from here to allà bums . The trip to Atzcapotzalco if it was removed and there were many pulquerias and drunks. Several traders knew me and I even cared , but it was still dangerous to venture that far. I really loved to buy soft drinks , made me feel big and important to share the fruit of my work , whatever it was . Reached together with the sung as a weight, each refresh cost twenty cents , weight reached me for five. I liked orangechitos ¨ ¨ , the Sidral was producing the Mundet and were very tasty . The store bought the Don Chano having a squat and ugly dog always barked damn , on occasion, I had a slingshot and without anyone noticing, I gave him a resorterazo , but to my bad luck, is I dropped all the soda that had put me in a box and the slingshot league who knows as it enrredaron in the hind legs of the animal and like magic , stretched and handle the bat , I received a tremendous blow to one of my eyes that left me seeing thousands of stars that soon disappeared , several hours , Click Dog !
Life in the Callejon de Carbajal , to me, it was all an entertainment : I played spin , the bearing , the yoyo , we changed the Coca Cola bottle caps and some twenty cents on delivery trucks were solid plastic red and Duncan called , were very nice and made one of them was High Marks in the gang . We also played the bones , that sustraìmos to eat apricots and water that we painted with colorful pills, had them red, green and yellow . The Reds were better than the others and were betting flown with some coin throwing . But what fascinated me more was playing marbles : We were doing a circle and we would put the entry that could be from a marble until we wanted and could only play to have that input. It was to take as many marbles as we could , without being trapped to hit the we wanted out of the circle, if our permanecia marble in the circle, we said ¨ ¨ Choking and we lost all the marbles what we would have bet , with no opportunity to continue playing .. . at other times , we played the Hoyito ¨ ¨ which was to make the marble into a hole and then one became a powerful ¨ ¨ bully that just hit another marble , could be made of it , always taking the game to that failed by not giving the opponent the marble and then another access the dimple could try changing the bully and so on. In the game hollered : do not steal ¨ ¨ hand consisting reach out more to the account to pull and Safin safado ¨ , ¨ is not forgiven when accidentally shot to make the marble , safaba them the finger. And if someone accidentally put the dimple again hollered : Choking ¨ ¨ and lost the game ... Time transcurria retreating quickly without realizing it and my grandmother was going to look for me in zapes for not doing homework , as if that was important or was worth more than my game ... Among my memories , I still have some of my fantastically beautiful agates marbles that were called , made in Germany of a solid glass ... Damn task , awful school ! Què demons were putting it head to my grandmother ? Damn !
The alley was composed of several neighborhoods : the 7th , the 10th and 14th , in the Later lived the more seasoned and was the largest population. Instead ours consisted of only five houses whose doors faced the street and had two inside , in the back yard .
One belonged to Doña Marina , woman beautiful , full-bodied , slender, with huge breasts , who kept making in a small room , face creams , hand and body , then irlas to sell to any side that bought them , gossip ferrying everywhere, it was a kind of human courier . To that lady , always with his whole face looked greasy , smeared with masks of all kinds. He liked to talk much , and seemed all of a macaw as he spent with my aunts gossiping , just by my grandmother putting stun very bad , which harmed it to me , because then the permits to go out and play or just plain scarce there were none.
- That woman , not for her mouth really upset my grandmother was saying . And you to top - referring to my aunts - that make the second , or believe that they will increase their insults beauty creams such ... Whatever you slather lard in the face, smooth skin puts No? - topping .
It was a small silence
- But mamà , No, by God ! - The naive quickly defended my aunts . These creams are very good and you because you drop it really bad, but you should also use tù , your skin is very battered , look in the mirror , you look more large old you ...
That kind of comment ', too gorged to my grandmother and things got ant color in the house , I just reached to cover my eyes with my hands , oh, my aunts ...
- Time enough for me to have, but to sleep ! Cried my grandmother very strong lack of sleep that I post for a while, just a without creams creams ! Right, vanidosillas ?
- Yes, always defeated mamà - finalized my dear aunts and I with the risk of not being able to leave ,bah !
The other house , belonged to an old fogy , always dressed in black . Her figure was a witch. They combed the high bun and her hair was frightening colored bun plata.Ese was done in the top of his head, looked more like a nest of birds or snakes . He wore no earrings, or any other adornment . His face was grim and not letting me gesture , his gaze distant . Not really looked like women. He was the owner of all this housing complex . The people were afraid and only watched their slow walk down the alley , he left to do some shopping , which was from time to time . A frequently mì pedia me to make him some errands , like shopping for vegetables and egg shop ¨ ¨ diver who was in Peralvillo Street , near the corner pulqueria , turning to the left. She gave me 20 cents per sent and told me that he did so because I did not steal and will always cumplia with all your orders. To me she was not scared , but I was very impressed by his personal appearance , especially their dress all in black, shoes, socks , skirt, blouse with long sleeves , all in black , his hair gray hair in high bun , all of it and it seemed to me ugly old woman, but that yes , straighter , straighter as a stick and very clean. It gave the print to be alive , because she had, but also to be dead because you did it with much indifference , as if nothing existed, only that which his distant gaze imagined. He got up at five o'clock to sweep and water the floor of the alley that had no pavement. Never, remember, he stopped , nor nobody dared to assault , they can respond with a spell or something, engarrotàndolos ...
The elementary school that I attended , it was set in the colonial exhipodromo Peralvillo - in that colony was to live years later . It was a public school , large, with two patios. Children concurred greater financial resources and other values . My grandmother did not want us to study in our neighborhood , was saying that there were all savages. What happens is that my uncle was called Roberto Ortiz , but I referred to him by his name and so he was , made them grace - in a very unfortunate ocasion , about his school mates terrible Secondary, the that was precisely located on Calle Bias , playing, playing , caught him and made a move on his spine and fractured it ... it was terrible all that, my grandmother sued the Director of the school and students were expelled campus . In that case I have very fuzzy memories , was even smaller , although I remember my uncle harness had to wear for a long time.
The primary schedule , was 8 in the morning , at 12.30 Last news . I had and I picked my aunts , Chela and Rosita . Crossed Round roundabout and then we took the path of Calzada de Guadalupe and since we introduced us Peralvillo the street in the neighborhood. Nearby, there were several railways and some cars parked ahì no longer operating or were in reapraciòn . The whole area , say from the back of the Barrio de Tepito , were solar , where many beggars or vagrants loitering . Now ahì , buildings are built Tlatelolco Unit , but formerly , in my època , were a kind of railroad coach yard of the station Buena Vista that was located next to the Colonia Guerrero, just down the bridge Nonoalco - Tlatelolco , to the left. It was less risky , take the roundabout way Round and then continue towards Peralvillo to go straight , saving a bit of time, but having to travel on these vacant lots and highly dangerous . Coming into the alley , I felt like a fish in the water and the first thing to was to leave my backpack to my aunts and go straight to the vicinity of 14 - which incidentally smelled really bad , having the toilet at the entrance - to see Dona Paola at that hour , more or less one in the afternoon, I was doing some sopes for food ¨ ¨ Tanis , his son who came as both. The neighborhood of 14 , was very large, had a large wooden gate at the entrance , which opened permanecia all day but at night it closed and bolted and latecomers , had to pay a fee to the custodian for let them enter . The toilets were just ahì - houses had no bathroom , in a space between the entrance and courtyard , so that the odor be ventilated with the air stream , but the truth is more well spread and was impregnated in the walls. It was tremendous stuff. Then was still a large courtyard, which had a large laundry center with a communal pool , where ladies kneeling , with aluminum cans , the kind where sardines packed , taking the water to take her laundry throwing it to the were washing clothes . Around the large courtyard , were the houses, were some rooms , not very large , with its front door, a small space of about four steps and then the square room , high ceiling , which barely fit a small dining with chairs , a cabinet and a small table , with a loft above for the beds. No room for the stove , a grill in case oil or gas. That was all . There were many rooms like that in the whole neighborhood , which had a second courtyard , as wide as the first, but no sink for washing clothes. That court used it to make their parties and gatherings ...
Dona Paola, took out his portable stove and griddle , and put out the coffee table and chairs and you find in the outer space, we ate their riquisisimos sopes . I really really liked the red sauce . Torteba tortilla with their hands, to plump and then placed them in the pan until cocian . Then placed them in a tortilla wrapped in a red napkin , thus avoiding to cool . When it came Taniz ¨ ¨ pulled tortillas and gave them some pinching all around , to prevent spilling the sauce, which could be green or red onion placed them and their cheese, those were the amazing sopes , Dona Paola .
- Have you got , drone ? - Told me . I did not know I wanted to say with that word. She just laughed out loud more . Then came the Taniz ¨ ¨ which was one of my idols in the neighborhood , was very good for hitting , there was no one to win and that there were others in the alley ', too good to fight. I was their prefridos powerful and felt good to be your friend . Nobody messed with me , just my age or a little more big , but nobody abused me , because of my friendship with him. ¨ ¨ Taniz company working in a Electrical parts , had like 23 years , was strong and handsome, his skin was not brown , but reddish , many girls sought him , but he was very serious and well behaved , did not smoke , or drink , to much exercise. He hardly spoke , nothing more is sonrreia with my stitches and your mamà all the time I said: Zangano and laughter were thrown from both ...
The other neighborhoods, the 7 and 10 , were much better presented . The best was that of 7 , even on our own. Had its big wooden gate , a spacious entrance hallway , your yard and the houses were much more spacious with two or three bedrooms and private bathroom included. Tenants if they wanted to , they could make their loft . Some rooms facing the street . In that neighborhood , bought some ice cubes flavored with a stick in the center, like a paddle, made them an old woman who lived alone. The gave five cents . In one of these houses , my godmother lived Delfina . You could enter your home , on the patio or on the street. We almost , we lived across from her. It is engaged in the purchase and sale of objects lend. Also advises guess luck and to clean with herbs and concoctions and was selling candles for love affairs and to have money. My godmother, was fat , fat , tall, dark complexion and short hair silver. It was ugly , her round face with its black ojotes , large earrings and always very clean and arregladita . He had at your disposal several people who helped them in all personal matters , one was mamà Sergio and the other , an adopted daughter , Irene . Sergio was like his personal secretary who was receiving customers , but really no help at all and if you spend money . René was also a black man , another adopted son , brother of Irene , which was very studious, attending the National Polytechnic , yet also very rebellious and annoying , bothered me that character. I always tried to hide him to avoid it. My godmother had more than enough money . He worked hard and apparently did so well, as he had plenty of money to lend up to revenues. It helped us to buy food on several occasions. She was my godmother , that my grandmother had said no worth, because he had been in groups with other children and adults not baptized ... for me . Delfina Godmother represented a powerful magical being dominated all other dimensions and spirits. Knew always supported us throughout, despite His character hard , bossy and tax ... I wanted to love my godmother Delfinita , admired ...
10 The neighborhood was a two-story building . Had two departments in front, one on each side of the iron door entry . Inside, the hallways were coming and each of the sides the doors of the houses that were spacious with a small patio and internal stairs to climb to sgundo floor. That construcciòn inside, seemed a dark maze , but was well laid out . In one of the departments of the entrance, lived mamà Kiko and Dona Paula . Kiko was a worker in a candy and chocolate company called Lux . Had his pickup truck , one of those big closed , where carrying their products to supply to all the local shops . Whenever I approached to greet him, regaled me candy. Cylinders were about five feet , with a white dial was turning . I liked the yellow and red , those were the more tasty , people frequently annoyed them . They were northerners, and tall white boys made life heavy . Kiko , would need something like 25 years. Galan was harassed and the girls a lot, that lit the boys in the neighborhood who did not lose the opportunity to be, teasing and fighting with èl azuzàndolo for . He was strong, the load cases we had developed his body. But he never fought them , despite a flat Last news broke the windshield of his truck . He was very cautious and wise that attack in groups and if they could live up to it cemerìan . Better to take her along with them , ignore them and put a lot of distance .
On occasion, to come home from school , I went to the alley to play. Had passed to the house of Taniz ¨ ¨ and try to observe if the sopes were ready . From the laundry , I saw Dona Paola, had not even taken the griddle , it looked like it was not at home, which made me strange ; also advises that upon entering the neighborhood , laundry ladies , I remained seeing so rare and aggressive faces . That's why I retired immediately and better I got out of there . Being playing marbles with my friends , he suddenly heard a very loud screams and ran many ladies and men from the neighborhood of 14 , armed with sticks and belts , while another group of people ', too equally armed aparecian , running from the vicinity of 10 and 7 . They clashed against each other in the middle of the street, but there was so much confusion, that beat against each other , no longer knowing who assaulted . It is assumed that the fight was the 14th against 7 , supported these by 10 . But when blows and blows , were all against all ... It was a fight that lasted several minutes. The show was huge , surprise , very interesting and very exciting. Of course there were several wounded. Came the Red Cross ambulances and police cars, because Don Chano , had telephoned them from your store. Nobody could believe as live and survive in the neighborhood. I hardly had time to gather my marbles at how quickly it all happened. It is assumed that there was an organization civilized , but the truth is that we lived as warriors , cuidàdandonos each other daily, with many gaps and multiple needs in a Mèxico trying at all costs to be peaceful and forward, but I think our past seasoned condemned us to be the ones we were very quarrelsome , without knowing what or why would fight as if it tratra flowery wars to capture prisoners and offer to feed the gods ... We never knew the reason for the fight in the alley , our motto was every man for himself !
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