Yaquis
Paco Ignacio Taibo II

NONFICTION | 2013 | 280 pages

The story of a popular war and a genocide in Mexico

The longest armed conflict in Mexican history lasted nearly forty-two years and took place in the Yaqui River region of Sonora. It is likely the longest people's war in Latin American history, and during its final ten years, it culminated in a cruelly planned and skillfully disguised genocide.

The Yaqui population never exceeded thirty thousand men, women, and children; the number fluctuated due to forced exiles, deportations, executions, repression, epidemics, and death in all its forms. The Yaqui people were dispersed throughout Sonora, from the mines and ranches to the towns, until they were reduced to around seven thousand people after the genocide. Official history succeeded in erasing these atrocious events from the memory of Mexicans. The rapacious, elusive, and deceitful Porfirio Díaz regime, which hid numerous forms of barbarism under the banner of progress, fostered the erasure of the accounts of the uprisings in Cajeme, Tetabiate, Pluma Blanca, and Sibalaume, ensuring that the narrative of the vanquished never gained traction. This book has been written in opposition to this collective amnesia.

RIGHTS: spanish PLANETA

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