Focusing on the Independence, Reform, Revolution Panel of Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito, analyze the Tinoco and Palacios about the 1. The War of Independence (1810–21).
= Tinoco and Palacios Felipe Tinoco and Catarino Palacio were martyrs in the War of Independence but do not appear on the mural. They are mentioned here to illustrate the strong opposition to independence that permeated Antequera, especially in the early stages of the War. In 1811, Tinoco and Palacio met with a group of priests in the Convent of the Conception and made preliminary plans for an insurrection. They were captured and held in a prison where the Panaderia Bamby is now located. The two young insurgents were shot by a firing squad, beheaded, dismembered and their heads were placed in metal cages on the edge of the city of Antequera. These gory details emphasize the risks that anyone took when they decided to support the War of Independence and illustrate the fear that authorities tried to sow in the minds of possible insurgents.
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