THE
INSURGENCE of CHAN SANTA CRUZ
THE BOOK of STONE
Over
the first two decades of the 20th century, the only successful Native American
insurgence on the North American continent was waged in Mexico’s Yucatan. President Porfirio Diaz’s
ambitious commissioning of General Ignacio Bravo to seize and hold Chan Santa
Cruz, capital of the revolted Maya, succeeded… but the forces of occupation
found themselves surrounded by patient, implacable rebels and their equally
implacable monte.
In
this fifth book (of 10), Captain Jose Macias returns to the Army of the
Republic and the Territory of Quintana Roo and is
given an important posting as commander of the railway station of Akbal – midway between Santa Cruz del Bravo and the
sea. There, he begins to understand how
war and occupation can often go hand-in-hand with exploitation and
collaboration as the few… Maya or Mexican… grow rich at the expense of the
many, including the legions of miserable prisoners shipped out to the Territory
as the regime of Porfirio Diaz spirals into
chaos. General Bravo, himself embroiled
in family dissensions, leads troops to put down a rebellion in Valladolid and
the former peon, now Cruzob official Silvestro Kaak encounters Mexican
justice.
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