THE INSURGENCE of CHAN SANTA CRUZ

BOOK EIGHT: THE SECOND of the BOOKS of CHANGE

CHAPTER THIRTY

Salvador Alvarado had had leisure, now, to peruse documents left by his predecessors and the events of Texas brought to mind a statement Garcilazo had made on his Merida excursion... "if the chances of fortune place me in the position of acting in a military capacity against the just complaints of the Yucatecan people... I would resign my commission."

Here was certain evidence of disloyalty! Cabling Carranza that Yucatan still thrived with reactionaries based in New Orleans and Havana, Alvarado added his suspicions that the jefe of the Territory was a member of the hated Junta Pacifista... after all, so many of its principals had gathered in Quintana Roo at one time or another... voluntarily or not.

Carranza's reply... though coded... seems to have influenced the Governor towards holding Garcilazo to his principles. Rather than authorizing an invasion explicitly, the First Chief merely suggested this potentially disloyal officer be replaced. Again, Garcilazo was ordered to release Plank and present himself at Peto for reassignment.

Again he refused... and, this time, in writing.

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