Later, Teresa told us what had happened that night. She was a rebel—a courier for the Cristeros—and had traveled to the village carrying a "package" for them inside the false bottom of her travel bag. She was to pass it along to another rebel at th e fiesta, then make her way back to Izamal the next day. She didn’t really have relatives in the village—hence her reluctance to let Rafael walk her "home" or to let him carry her bag, which she had deliberately left on the base of the statue in the plaza for her contact to pick up.