Chapters
Places, People

The next step

Cholula, past and present

Empire of Humiliation today in Cholula

 

4

The original route

 

 

3

Making amate paper today in Cholula

 

 

 

5
 Javier Alatoro, so marvelous a creature...

 

6
The party, the massacre mural bebedores pulque

Section of the mural Bebedores de Pulque found in Cholula,
dating to the 15th Century. Cortes may have seen it.

 

Felipa Peres Angeles sucks the liquid from a maguey cactus for fermenting into pulque

 

 

 

 

 

Sucking and chewing

the maguey plant to
make Pulque today

 

 

An authentic Toledo

 
Trapped

9

Front page
of the resplendant
and very well-paying
Reforma newspaper

Imperialism

 

 

2

 

 

"The poll's important finding concerns attitudes
toward the United States. Around 60 percent
of Latin Americans have an unfavorable opinion
of the U.S, a much higher figure than 10 years ago.
Oddly, the figure is higher despite the fact that more
Latin Americans than ever want to migrate to the U.S."

The weirdness and death of Montezuma


Montezuma’s death

re-created

89

Montezuma

 

1

Into the Sonora Market

 

 

 

7
The powerful riddle

Worrisome visit

Foreign policy		  
 

Jump to first set of chapters:

Doing the work of imperialism in Juárez, Mexico

How to hire corrupt police officers in Mexico

Marina, Anderson

The burning

Cathedral
How to escape someone following you in Mexico City

How to pay a mordida in Mexico
The smallest instrument of imperialism

Jump to second set of chapters:

A part of the truth about a part of Marina
Suspecting an imperialism
Unbearable hatred in the newspaper
Why is Anderson in Mexico?
Cutting hands
Survival tip for Mexico City
Simple fraud
Humiliation in Tlascala
Humiliation today?
The moment Anderson and Marina begin to understand

Return to third set of chapters:

The next step
Cholula, past and present
The party, the massacre
Trapped
Imperialism
The weirdness and death of Montezuma
Montezuma’s death re-created
The powerful riddle
Worrisome visit
Foreign policy

Jump to fourth set of chapters:

Building the Cathedral
Media empire
Going to church
The edible and empire
EC in the end

Jump to fifth set of chapters:

Meanwhile
Guilt and crime
The humiliating theft
To the Museum
Betrayal and death
Conclusion
The exit

Jump to final set of chapters:

After the Museum
Disappearing