Ribald Classic: The Machaca Rebellion
June, 1973
Some Time before Simón Bolivar, with his British and Irish troops, won the Battle of Boyacá and swept into Bogotá, that sleepy colonial capital had begun to stir with revolutionary ideas. It was there that Antonio Nariño translated the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1794 and it was in the Nueva Granada that the comunero uprising against Spanish power took place. "But what of the rights of woman?" thought the lovely Luz Marina Vásquez, weeping behind her veil as the carriage took h...
