Comandante Ibarra
Subtitle: a novel of the Yaqui Wars
By: Sterling Bennett
Publisher: Montezuma Books Llc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781937799878
Subjects: Fiction; Wars, 1896-1900; History; Yaqui Indians; Military History
Description: During a routine robbery investigation, Miguel Angel Ibrarra, a National Rural Policeman--one of Mexico's infamous Rurales--stumbles upon an atrocity against the Yaquí People in the state of Sonora in 1900. A slight stroke has led him to question the things that before seemed simple, including his loyalty to the modernizing regime of Dictator Porfirio Diáz, as well as the question of why the rights mentioned in the Mexican Constitution of 1857 should or should not apply to the Yaqui People. His choices have consequences, whereby he must choose between his own safety and needs of people who are the victims of a centuries old genocide.