guatepec

Updated: May 16, 2025

Here a petate, or a palm hat there a broken olla; a stringless bandolon, the fragments of a guitar crushed under the angry heel, or some flimsy articles of female dress cuffed into the dust; leaves of torn books misas, or lives of the Santisima Maria the labours of some zealous padre; old paintings of the saints, Guadalupe, Remedios, and Dolores of the Nino of Guatepec rudely torn from the walls and perforated by the sacrilegious bayonet, flung into the road, kicked from foot to foot the dishonoured penates of a conquered people.

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers