fought a disappointed lover, a husband insane
the Indian raids, the troops federal
permanent dispossession and the seduction of suicide.
Nothing could conquer: the fervent love of wife held it throughout his odyssey.
Agustina Palacio, santiagueña of birth, granddaughter the last English governor of Santa Fe, from 13 or 14 years was the wife of Joseph Libarona. Its landscape of old family clans fighting for power, heat, glory and fear not touched.
The year 1840 came with speed to land in Santiago de Estero hot. José Pedro de Unzaga Libarona and signed the statement of the people against the leader Felipe Ibarra, who spent 20 years enforcing federalism through blood and fire, naming a new authority. Little did the change, because in a few days Ibarra resumed power, making pay Unzaga Libarona and cruelly the movement of pieces on the board santiagueña policy.
At the outbreak of the tragedy, the girl jumping Gustine share his story of love candy cane and lethargic in the provincial nap. Known, the present, the most beloved became the slap of evil passions, all the pains of old resentments. His fall was so brutal, like a ripe fig which opened in red shrillness that were willed courage.
Felipe Ibarra took umbrage with Libarona, gloated beyond what is expected in the hardships he planned for it. A secret knot in the stomach, a knot that is strangling the mouth broke in two words: "El Bracho. The mere mention of such inhospitable dreaded place. Banished him to El Bracho, considering that death was little punishment.
Agustina
The ordeal began. Decided to share the fate of her husband, but the opposition of the family seemed unshakable. Could it get conjugal duty to such an extent? No one understood that without Libarona for her there was no life.
won the tug of war and before leaving with a heavy heart, attempted the impossible: to beseech the leader for the life of her husband. The reason warned him it was hopeless, but hope the said.
They were face to face losing her, he master of life and death, and tragedy favor. He looked from up with a gesture of contempt in his mouth. Had not changed since the days when the love required. He had courted, had committed the soul and the words to make it yours. Agustinita had rejected. And now came to ask for the man who had taken it.
Ibarra's pride was so hurt and in the first hour of contempt and determined the hardships in store for him. Had swallowed gall when the "girl Agustina" married Libarona, now in front of him to vent their anger, insulted her, the fun while doing them out of his presence. But given the permission for "the Bracho crazy to go and steal the wild if that is your will. "
Agustina's first trip to the place of exile of her husband was accompanied by her daughters. It was a week of constant torture by the bites of kissing bugs and mosquitoes, after which he had to return to the city. This happened when they announced an attack on a raid, and knew by his words, which could only be saved without them.
Unzaga Libarona and were confined to the north, in the Chaco Gualamba, where life was so impossible that Joseph understood that only remained the possibility of circumventing the Indians fled and federal lines. Sent a note to the wife would join them in the venture, she unhesitatingly replied that he only wanted to live or die by his side.
Joseph received the response being very ill and fell into madness. So when Agustina arrived with a broken heart, for leaving, perhaps for good to their daughters, found her now estranged husband to be would become one of his executioners.
From then on his course would be the horror. Denied medical care for her husband and nurse becomes the latter of Unzaga and other characters you'll meet in the year of their punishment. With their hands raised ranch after ranch as the troops seeing built is confining, interned. They also curtails any possibility of communicating with the family to receive news and money, they steal the shotgun used to hunt and feed. Agustina
does not give up, or cornered by forcible transfers, lack of water, dirt, heavy work, the terror of the Indians, wild animals, men de Ibarra, to be raped, to husband's blows, and those shadows that had become his companions. Breastfeeding
Indian babies, a seamstress for the Indians, make trimmings exchanged for jerky and water, growing corn and pumpkins.
In 1843, the death of Libarona, whose body was dragged to a clearing of the mountain to bury him, meant the end of this terrible story.
How did this nobleman to be master of milk and plant to survive? How did this girl who always traveled in pompous carriages to drive from the legs, a horse too heavy, while fleeing harassment every day? How did this woman who had known nothing but pampering and praise for a remarkable woman of Samaria? Only love he felt for his Joe can explain.
A feminist reading of its history, understands that the move was the education of servitude to her husband that was imposed on women of the colony, we believe that much more throbbed in the heart of Agustina, by simple comparison with the wife of barely resisted Unzaga ten days of suffering with this, when both had received the same training.
returned to his 19 years in rags, was unrecognizable. Like Odysseus, the family could not discover in that guise to submit to the destination.
returned to take charge of his daughters, Lucinda and Elise, who spent the rest of his life.
His odyssey had come to the end, but would forward the struggle against the ghosts of memory, for years the prey wake of terror. It came a year of martyrdom in which the seduction of suicide could not reduce it.
forces had also to fight another twelve years until the transfer of the remains of his "Joseph" to the city of Salta.
© Peña de Southern History. Ana di Cesare, Geronimo Rombolá, Beatriz Clavenna
Internet version of the article published in November 1993
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