EL DEMONIO DE LOS ANDES

SUMMARY

Castilla la Vieja gave birth to the soldier who, for his deeds, called him
in the Colony: "the Demon of the Andes". Francisco de Carbajal came
to Peru to support Francisco Pizarro.

And to the death of this, he faced Almagro. In Chupas, with only a third
of realists, he defeated the enemy.

He returned to Spain, but they name him master of the field. After the
victory of lñaquito,

Gonzalo Pizarro was able to free us, but he failed. And the arrival of
Gasca, with powers of Felipe II, Carbajal prevented a massive betrayal.

Harassed in the South, - in Huarina - and thanks to the courage of

Carbajal, Pizarro achieved his last victory. On April 9, 1548, in the
battle of Saxsahuamán (sic), he ascended to Cépeda; Carbajal
resigned himself to fight as a simple soldier. The fire broke, the second
of Cépeda and the Captain de la Vega, father of the chronicler, passed
into the rival camp. Gasca triumphed with cheap laurels and without
bloodshed.

Defeated, his enemies surrounded Carbajal with the desire to kill him:
but the intervention of a certain Rye saved him.

- You do not know me? - Told him -. I'm Diego Centeno.

- God! said Carbajal, evoking the betrayal of Charcas and Huarina. As

I always saw him from behind, I did not recognize him.

Pizarro, as a knight, would be decapitated. And Carbajal, as a

commoner, would be dragged and dismembered.

A merchant came to collect twenty thousand ducats. Carbajal untied

his scabbard, and said:
- Well, take this pod to account ...

When he was dragged, he laughed and sang: "What a fortune! Child in

crib, old man in crib. What a fortune! "

They wanted to tear it apart. To the executioner, Juan Enríquez, said

happily: "Brother, treat me like a tailor to a tailor".

He was executed on the same battlefield on April 10, at 84 years old.

Later, Gasca would enter Cuzco.

His ferocity was proverbial; but they recognized him as a great virtue:
fidelity ... He never tolerated perfidy.

COMENTARIO
 LA ULTIMA FRASE DE BOLIVAR

SUMMARY

The scene happens in San Pedro Alejandrino hacienda, and on a

December afternoon in 1830.

In the spacious corridor of the house, and sitting in a rocking chair, he

saw an emaciated man, whom a cavernous and tenacious cough
convulsed from hour to hour.

The doctor, a European wise man, gave him a soothing potion, and two
old soldiers, who, silent and sad, strolled in the hall, went solicitously
to the corridor.

More than a sick man, it was already a dying man, but of a dying man
of immortal renown.

After a strong access, the patient was immersed in deep meditation,

and after a few minutes said in a very weak voice:

- Do you know, doctor, what torments me when I feel close to the

grave?

- No, my general.

- The idea that perhaps it has been built on loose sand and plowed in
the sea.

And a sigh rose from the most intimate of his soul and sank back into
his meditation.

After a long time, a very sad smile appeared on his face and he said
slowly:

- Do not you suspect, doctor, who have been the three most illustrious
fools of the world?

- Certainly not, my general.

- Get close, doctor. I'll put it in your ear.

We have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and me.
 LOS CASIQUES SUICIDAS

SUMMARY

The province of Cotac-pampas (plain of miners) was in the times of the

last Inca divided into two cacicazgos, whose limits marched the Acca-
tasse mountain range.

The most important of the cacicazgos was known by the name of

Yanahuara, and its neighbor with that of Cotaneras. The two palaces
inhabited by the respective feudal lords still exist in ruins.

The cacique of Yanahuara had already gathered an immense quantity

of gold to contribute to the rescue of Atahualpa, when he received the
news that the Spaniards had killed the sovereign.

The cacique then ordered to build a stone staircase, which served to

transport the treasure to the steep cave of Pitic; then he had the scale
destroyed and buried alive in that inaccessible height.

The natives add that in certain funeral anniversaries one sees, in the
midst of the darkness of the night, a slight glow, which for them
represents the spirit of their cacique wandering in space.

In the time of the Incas, much gold was extracted from the gold fields
of Cotac-pampas, and it is still famous that in 1640 four Portuguese
worked.

the Hierba uma mine with great profit. One night armed with serious
pendency, resorted to arms, three died, justice came, and the
Portuguese who was alive, not to fall prisoner, brought the lamp to a
barrel of gunpowder, whose explosion caused the collapse of the mine
.

In the first year of the foundation of Lima, Don Francisco Pizarro

ordered that Indians from the outskirts of the city be brought in to be
masons.
The Cacique de Huansa and Carampoma tenaciously refused to comply
with an order that humiliated the dignity of their people; and in the
impossibility of resisting the despotic mandate, he preferred to be a
witness to the debasement of his subjects, to bury himself in a cave,
whose mouth he covered with a large carved stone.

Today, whenever the Indians of the province of Huarochirí celebrate

their festivities, they bring flowers and provisions that they place on
said stone, and consider the name of the cacique as that of a protective
genius of the region.