PILGRIM
Alma Reed, the Pilgrim Felipe Carrillo Puerto
An American journalist inspired the most famous songs of Yucatecan trova
Surely you ever in your life heard the Yucatan song Peregrina ... What you may not know is the story behind it was woven. The musical a real audiobook while a hymn of love that bears her name today is.
The romance that said Felipe Carrillo Puerto, first socialist governor of Yucatan (1922) and journalist Alma Reed caused and continue to cause rivers of ink ...
Alma Marie Sullivan (Alma Reed) was born in San Francisco, California (USA) in 1889 and was not only one of the first women journalists in his country but also the most important. He had signed a column under the pseudonym "Mrs. Goodfellow." Here Alma offered legal advice to those who had no chance of hiring the services of a lawyer, mostly Mexicans.
In 1921 the family of Simon Ruiz, contacted the journalist Simon as their only 17 years old was sentenced to death on charges of murder, but Alma not only saved his life but also managed to reform laws Of his country.
The story of journalist "gringa" Mexican defender was widely reported by the national press which led to President Alvaro Obregon to invite to our country as a distinguished guest.
A peculiar thing happened when arriving at the railway station in the city of Mexico and hoped a representative of President Obregon but right next to a businessman who had gone to meet his wife with mariachi was also, and heard notes the song "Soul of my soul," the journalist-thinking that the serenade was for she burst into tears and began to embrace all the mariachis ... nobody cleared his mistake not to hurt her.
YOUR ARRIVAL IN YUCATAN
Alma Reed decided to work in Mexico City where he worked as a correspondent. He was later sent to Merida, Yucatan to interview Eduard Thompson, the first archaeologist who excavated Chichen Itza, and it was during this visit when he met Felipe Carrillo Puerto, a dynamic governor who had ordered the construction of the road Merida-Chichen Itza.
He finally managed to interview Thompson who since 1885 already explored and excavated Chichén Itzá. In 1890 a packing meat company in the United States made a donation to Thompson, researcher used the money to buy 100 square miles of land where the ruins are located.
Thompson fell in love with Alma and said he had stolen the cenote at Chichen Itza gold pieces, jade, jewelry and ornaments that had adorned the maidens sacrificed by the Maya; treasures he had secretly sent to America to support their benefactors in the Boston Peabody Museum through diplomatic bags.
Astonished by the seriousness of the matter, Alma Thompson asked me to sign a confession, and he did. Then the journalist publications provoke an international scandal that helped Mexico recover much of the national treasures that were already in the Boston Peabody Museum.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
After traveling to Chichen Itza, Alma went to the site of Uxmal. That interviewed Felipe Carrillo Puerto and as the interview progressed it became fascinated by the famous Yucatecan politician.
During the talk he explained Carrillo Puerto Yucatan was inhabited by 100 powerful families who arrived from 1542 when Merida was founded by Francisco de Montejo. These were rich landowners extremely cruel with the Maya who had become slaves.
Alma knew that Carrillo Puerto had fought in the center of the country with General Emiliano Zapata and down the cry of "Land and Freedom". Upon returning to Yucatan Carrillo Puerto initiate reforms. He held up a program for emancipation, and developed the restoration of communal village that had been stolen during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Mexican Constitution translated to the Mayan for farmers know their rights.
NACE SONG
Alma said Felipe Carrillo Puerto was the "Abraham Lincoln" Mexican. But the story does not end there. A second visit to Yucatan cause both advocates unprotected ended madly in love.
Carrillo Puerto Isabel Palma divorced his wife of many years. Then send to compose a song that reflected what was living and his immense love for the American. Carrillo Puerto talents brought together two of the time, the poet Luis Rosado Vega and musician Ricardo Palmerín Pavia.
By then the romance was vox populi, and condemned by the "decent" families of Yucatan, so that the song "Pilgrim" was forbidden for young people "good beginning" theme while in hiding was a total success.
Carrillo's death
Oblivious to what the fate in store for them, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Alma Reed began preparing his own wedding to be held in San Francisco, California January 14, 1924. To arrange everything related to the event Alma left the country but soon delahuertista time explode the revolution.
Carrillo Puerto had fought for the Maya but conditions were giving to the landowners (Divine Caste) owners of huge tracts of sisal could overthrow him.
Carrillo Puerto tried to embark along with three of his brothers and six friends bound for New Orleans where acquire guns but face this new revolution, but were intercepted and arrested (December 1923) on the island of Holbox, Quintana Roo.
He was then taken to Merida, jailed and prosecuted. It was enough to apologize or maybe beg for his life but he felt unworthy to his investiture as governor of the state and preferred death. That was how the 3 January 1924 his three brothers and his six friends were formed in a row against the wall of the municipal cemetery of Merida.
It is noteworthy that the loyalty to Felipe Carrillo Puerto reached such a degree that the first platoon of Yucatecan soldiers fired over their heads without a single bullet hit the target, which irritated Colonel Broca who immediately entirely ordered to shoot the first platoon to which warned of the consequences, the second had no choice but to shoot on those convicted.
THE NEWS IN SAN FRANCISCO
Alma Reed was advised in San Francisco on the revolt in Mexico. After she knows through its own newspaper that Felipe Carrillo Puerto, 49 years old, was killed in Yucatan as a martyr.
Alma returned to Merida where he remained a short time. Travel the world as sent from The New York Times. Finally she never married and continued to support the Mexicans as in an art gallery which opened in New York where she was promoting Mexican painting and especially the work of muralist José Clemente Orozco.
In 1950 Alma returned to Mexico but this time the Territory of Quintana Roo where he continued to write about the culture from which both fell in love. In 1961 the Mexican government awarded him the medal "Aguila Azteca" the highest honor for a foreigner to achieve in our country.
Finally at the age of 77 years, Alma Marie Sullivan (Alma Reed) as if he had chosen the day, he died in a hospital in Mexico City a November 20, 1966 date in which the beginning of the Mexican Revolution is commemorated. His remains were cremated and his ashes deposited in Merida in the same place where his beloved rest.
Since 1936 the most important Mayan population of Quintana Roo, formerly Chan Santa Cruz, named after the hero Yucatan, Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
((Published in February 2005, in the 24th edition of the magazine Pioneers text notes based on different authors. Ruth Ross-Merrimer and Jeanine Kitchel)
Listen to the song "Pilgrim" in the interpretation of the Mexican charro Jorge Negrete. Just click on the following address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06PHapO6dc
pilgrim, clear-eyed and divine
and burning cheeks flush,
mujercita of purplish lips
hair and radiant as the sun.
Peregrina you left your places
firs and snow, and snow maiden
and came to take refuge in my palm
under the sky of my land, my tropical land.
Songbirds, birds of my pasture,
for they sing their songs if they see
and perfumed flowers nectarios
They caress you and kiss you on the lips and in the temple.
When you leave my palm and my saw,
Pilgrim's charming countenance,
do not forget, do not forget my land ...
do not forget, do not forget my love.
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