La virgen de Cancuc

Resumen

In her introduction, the author notes that the document published refers to the Indian uprisings in Chiapas in the eighteenth century. In the Tzeltal rebellions of 1712 and 1727, the Indians replaced the conquerors' Virgin of Patronage with the Indian Virgin of Cancuc as a symbol unifying them against the Spaniards. The movement was crushed in six months. In 1727, another rebellion was organized under the same Virgin of Cancuc, but it was also put down. The document, dated 1743, is evidence that the same problems continued, for in it is noted that prints of the Virgin of Cancuc had been distributed in Chiapas and Tabasco. A text at the foot of the image, written in French and Dutch, refers to the political principles of the Indians in 1712 and 1727. The authorities urge that the prints be confiscated, and denounced the participation of foreign countries in the movement that is aimed at undermining Spanish colonial power.