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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:23 +0100

Mural II

This second mural, continues the story begun in the first (which hangs in the opposite corridor); here the conquest has been completed and the Mayan people, defeated and crushed, can only look forward to difficult times of slavery and ignominy. Yet there are some good men amongst this great tragedy, like Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, whom we see protecting the Indians. We can also make out the heroic figure of a
Maya breaking his colonial chains; the time of Independence has come, and of the Caste War, and the buoyant era of sisal, the Indian's master, and on to the onset of the Revolution and modern times.