La Redota - Una Historia de Artigas Page #4

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Because we were afraid, Jos.

That's whywe chose you

as our leader.

They aren't ordinary soldiers.

Didn't you see the badges they had?

Sort of like dragons.

Those dragons will be of use

heating waterto drink mate, right?

Always with your silly jokes, you.

Obviously you've never saw the savagery

those Portuguese are capable of.

You don't care about anything!

What do you mean, I don't care,

Carlos? I'm here, am I not?

We've gone into a dead end.

What are we going to do now?

Ask for help.

Let's draft a request...

I asked you.

I told you clear as day!

You shouldn't have emigrated!

You're civilians.

You should've never gotten

mixed up with an army!

What's that about a request?

I think we could say

something like...

Seeing all the troubles we have

been trough since

the invasion of Spain by

Napoleon Bonaparte...

Not Spain! Put "our Motherland",

it's more respectful.

...and the abdication of our King

Ferdinand Vll...

God save him!

Our King Ferdinand Vll,

may God save him...

our King Ferdinand Vll,

may God save him...

and seeing that, according to

the armistice, the Portuguese

were supposed to withdraw from

the Banda Oriental

but instead of doing so...

I don't understand.

What's the point of this?

To send it to whom?

What's the point?

What do you mean, what's the point?

To send it to the High Courts.

Lambs, at the mercy of a woIf

in Iamb skin.

RIaying the buiIders. Of what?

What we need to do is

to appoint an ambassador.

An ambassadorwho goes...

we are a country, aren't we?

Who goes to represent us,

to Rio de Janeiro

and talks to the Portuguese,

and grants us... an armistice.

But how are we going to negotiate

with Portugal? We are Spanish!

Our capital is Madrid.

How are we going to

make a deal with Portugal?

We were Spanish, Carlos! Were.

Now we can be whateverwe want.

We can be British... or French...

Orwe could be us.

What "us"?

What do you mean by "us"?

Americans.

Like Buenos Aires?

And who will be our King?

An American king?

ARepublic.

Without a king!

That would be... anarchy!

Carlos, I thought you would have

more trust in your people.

Gentlemen... we are a little country

at the edge of the world.

We are alone.

We're not alone, LuisAntonio.

We're surrounded!

Surrounded by many provinces

that sufferthe same as us.

This time I'm not mistaken.

It's him!

He is the setback of History.

Of course! Like this, a camping

people, we're fragile.

Vulnerable.

But together...

lmagine!

We could be a continental army!

Gentlemen.

We are a power!

We'll get the reinforcements

from Paraguay.

And we'll besiege Montevideo again!

Demagogue.

He says he respects the King,

but is anti-monarchy.

Says he abides by Buenos Aires,

but he disobeys it.

He doesn't know who his

enemies are,

but I know who's mine.

This is perhaps my Iast drawing.

WiII anyone ever see them?

It doesn't matter.

This is my ticket to find you.

Today I fulfiII mi mission...

and be on my way.

Hail Mary, full of grace.

Our Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit

of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

But, when the dog is dead...

the madness is over.

Do you know how we deaI with

traitors around here?

Ready the platoon!

Company! March!

Larra!

Follow me!

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

My General invites you to see...

How do you do?

How are you?

I'm fine.

Would you like a piece of asado?

Yes, please. I'm hungry.

Aim!

Fire!

HIS CHILDREN:

Of Iooking for you

over and over...

of trying to find and

put together aII your pieces,

of not being abIe to see you whoIe,

of aII that...

I'm tired.

I'm fragiIe, I Iost my bearings,

I have no sense,

and thus I faiI.

That's why I am

what I have become.

What is it?

Let me see you!

Let me know about you!

Let me know of my Spain!

Don't lower your eyes, Fernando.

Lt can't be!

Listen to this!

The General Court of Spain,

with the King being a prisoner,

have just promulgated

a First Constitution!

They call it La Pepa...

La Pepa?

The Spanish Nation is free

an independent.

And it is not, nor can it be

the property of any family or person.

Listen to this other!

"Those who advise or help him

in any attempt of these acts

are hereby declared traitors

and will be prosecuted as such".

God damn it!

But this is a revolution!

This will change a lot our plans.

This complicates things a lot.

With a revolution in Spain,

the Portuguese

won't stop until the Andes.

My friends, it's urgent,

now more than ever

to send a peace mission to

deal with the Portuguese.

We negotiate, get our lands back,

and nobody loses anything.

Here, the only one who has

anything to lose is you!

You just care about your lands, you!

No, we all lose.

Were are you going to work?

We want freedom,

while you care about

your cows and stuff.

The best protection for our people

is a Constitution like this one!

One that would guarantee them

their rights as citizens!

Right you are, Miguel!

We are in dire need of that

legal certainty too,

to secure the lands we

labored so hard to maintain!

These lands have always

been our lands!

Please, LuisAntonio!

All of you have gone crazy!

We can't go anywhere!

Lf we go back to Montevideo

they'll hang us fortreason!

Lf we stay here, the

Portuguese will kill us!

And you keep arguing about...

papers!

Did you get any information

out of the Portuguese prisoners?

Do we know when the weapons

from Paraguay will arrive?

When will they arrive?

This protest must be

a proclamation.

Like this one, inspired by La Pepa?

Like La Pepa, orthe Constitution

of the United States

Or France.

Let's learn from those who know,

the civilized peoples.

Not like the ones here,

where we are surrounded by

brutish gauchos, indians,

illiterates

Not gauchos, Luis Antonio!

There are no gauchos here.

There are peasants.

Get that through your head!

Prove it, Jos.

Prove it to me!

What has this people done?

Besides killing a few cows

and a few royalists.

We are all here together because

we destroyed something, Jos

not for creating something.

No one here has created anything!

Look, LuisAntonio!

Here, neitherthe poorest...

northe richest...

is betterthan the other!

Here...

no one is more than other!

No one is more than other!

With that freedom,

I don't offend norfear.

Pity of the people who depends

on a name...

or on a man.

Poor wretched soul!

HIS CHILDREN:

House of Government of Buenos Aires

Do I leave these over here?

Yes, leave them there.

News from Artigas?

Nothing, my lord Sarratea.

Nothing yet.

Yeah... just with a knife

it will be difficult.

We have to find anotherway.

Send him a gun.

What kind of gun, sir?

Agun, a small gun!

Comfortable, easy to handle.

Agun!

Send it with someone!

Those musicians maybe.

General! Pepe!

Ten Paraguayan carts!

Must be ourweapons!

Yes! Let's go meet them!

Should I have your horse saddled?

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