FIRST
ACTION No. 21
FIRST DEFEAT IN THE LIBERAL TOLIMA
(Battlefield. Sunrise. Sentries there. Forces commanded by General Cesareo Pulido, is attacked by surprise by conservative forces. Action bloody. Shooting first and then come men with machetes in hand.
A melee followed by gun shots and men on horseback.)
Voice .- Care boys… We attack!
Colonel Tint .- In their trenches!
Octavio .- Here is the enemy.
Evaristo .- Conservatives…
Olegario .- Yes, the Goths hijueputas.
Colonel Tint .- Long live the Liberal Party! At attack…
(Action by war. After it, the conservatives victorious comment)
Captain .- This does away with all.
Soldier 1 .- We need to exterminate them.
Captain .- That is not left or a liberal live…
Soldier 2 .- Not to tell the story, Captain.
Captain .- Viva the Conservative Party.
Soldier 3 .- Viva the conservative party in power.
Soldier 4 .- Or as they say the children of Satan…
Captain .- Viva conservative hegemony.
Soldier 1 .- Viva our president Manuel María Sanclemente.
All .- Viva!
Captain .- Rematen with them.
Soldier 2 .- My captain, remember that the President is sick Sanclemente.
Captain .- Then… alive Don Miguel Antonio Caro.
3 .- The Soldier is the real President of Colombia.
Captain .- To him we owe.
Soldier 4 .- It is a real conservative.
Soldier 1 .- And Catholic…
Soldier 2 .- Apostolic…
3 .- And Roman Soldier.
Soldier 4 .- They wanted war?
Captain .- Well here have hijueputas.
Soldier 2 .- malparidos Liberals.
Soldier 3 .- The priest of the village, told us that children are the devil.
Captain .- Mátenlos all! That is not left with any head ..
(Van reviewing one to one of the soldiers liberals. Who is injured at the Top. Slash some heads and placed on sharp sticks as a deterrent to others. Les placed a sign that reads: “FOR BEING LIBERAL”)
(Sunset - night. Colonel Reynaldo Hue and his companions Octavio, Evaristo and Olegario emerging from his hiding place.)
Colonel Tint .- Much of soldiers killed!
Octavio .- Other injured.
Evaristo .- The cruelty of war.
Olegario .- We have been defeated.
Colonel Tint Olegario .- Yes, but not vanquished.
Octavio .- some still survived.
Colonel Tint .- My concern is the fate of our overall Cesareo Pulido.
Evaristo .- What will become of him…
Colonel Tint .- There will be dead? I do not think so.
Olegario .- Or will prisoner.
Octavio .- OR evil injured.
Colonel Tint .- My overall Pulido, is a Berraco.
Evaristo .- A true son of the people.
Colonel Tint .- A true liberal.
Olegario .- Hopefully that runs with good luck.
Octavio .- do we deal with the rest of the Batallòn, my colonel Matiz?
Colonel Tint .- We shall organize.
Olegario .- That’s impossible colonel.
Octavio .- We destroyed.
Evaristo .- And very decaída morality.
Colonel Tint .- organise guerrilla warfare, with the rest of the battalion left.
Olegario .- I agree with you Colonel Tint.
Evaristo .- Where will our action?
Colonel Tint .- We shall join the forces of General Benedict Ulloa.
Octavio .- Colonel Hue, where the overall Ulloa this?
Colonel Tint .- la Vega, Cundinamarca.
Olegario .- Perfect my colonel Tint.
Evaristo .- As you order my colonel.
Octavio .- His orders will be fulfilled.
Colonel Tint My overall .- Benedict Ulloa, we receive very well.
The conservative forces, with overwhelming superiority in men and arms, strafed mercilessly in Tolima our army liberal who suffered huge losses. After bloody actions in which the army was decimated liberal Tolima, with a lot of young southerners, as we were called, and other soldiers organized guerilla warfare and came to Vega - Cundinamarca, where we join the General Benedict Ulloa, East Chief organized guerrilla liberal on many fronts, my friends Octavio Lozada, Evaristo Lara Olegario Lara and I are touched operate in the area Tibacuy, near the town of Fusagasuga.