1:17:01
Without Pablo's help, the Nationalists
would have taken our town
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the day the revolution began,
for many Nationalists lived there.
1:17:09
But Pablo organized the people,
and in the night
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all suspects were dragged from their
beds and locked up in the city hall.
1:17:18
In the dark,
he surrounded the police barracks,
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cut the telephone wires
and placed dynamite under the wall.
1:17:27
When morning came, he called on
the civil guards to surrender,
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but they wouldn't.
So he blew the wall open.
1:17:42
But then there was a shout
for us to stop firing
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and four civil guards
walked out with their hands up.
1:17:49
Pablo said, "Show us how to die,
you who have always done the killing."
1:17:54
"What are you going to do?",
the officer asked. "Shoot you."
1:17:58
Pablo passed behind them.
1:18:01
I can hear the pistol even now
and see the head of each man fall.
1:18:07
One held his head still
when the pistol touched it.
1:18:10
One shivered in his whole body
and his head was shaking.
1:18:14
Only one put his hands in front of his
eyes and he was the last one.
1:18:18
The hat fell from his head
and Pablo said, "Pilar, he's polite.
1:18:24
He takes off his hat
for a woman like you!"
1:18:32
A crowd was gathering
in the plaza before the city hall.
1:18:36
"Why is it done this way?",
they asked Pablo.
1:18:39
"To save bullets," he said,
"and to make all of you share in it."
1:18:43
I had picked up that hat
and a man said,
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"Pilar, that's bad taste.
We're done with civil guards now."
1:18:59
Drunkards yelled,
as if at a bullfight,