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How we doing?

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Great.

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Slightly overwhelming,
I'm sorry.

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No.

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OK, I think I'll stop the
screen and go to just reading.

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"En las primeras
décadas del nuevo siglo"

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Cenex se puso en marcha.

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Pero en ese siglo betún había
cometido un delito digno

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de castigo, un robo de arroz
y café, o una deuda de grano,

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ron y tierra.

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La justicia, siempre
excelsa, le encontró

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a pie en el camino real,
sediento de fuente.

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Y aunque en artículo uno
quedaba prohibida la extracción

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de esclavos sin permiso real en
el artículo 2.1 exceptuaba los

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sentenciados por los tribunales.

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La transportaron--
se transportaron ante

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aquel cajón de la sastra con
su estalactita pendiente,

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donde la guardia
revisaban los reclusos.

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Una detallaba los
procedimientos,

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y la otra los desvestía.

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La española, con voz
callada, explicaba mientras

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la Gringa supervisaba la fila.

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Una repetía con tono
compareciente, y la otra

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los miraba con odio
fijo y manoseo firme.

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La estructura en sí se debatía.

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El estilo neomudéjar con su
afán secular contenía un corazón

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vacío de reforma, una gran plaza
de ciudad española sembrada de

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flores fugitivas.

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And some of the verses
here are actually

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extractions from codes that
were established both during

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and after the abolition
of slavery in Puerto Rico,

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pertaining to who
could get arrested.

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And la libreta o jornal.

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So even after slavery
was abolished,

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Puerto Ricans were forced
to carry a notebook around

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specifying-- those
who [INAUDIBLE]----

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the ex-enslaved were forced to
carry a notebook around saying

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who they worked for.

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Otherwise, they
would get arrested.

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And so a lot of these are a
combination of things written

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about the prison and things
written in these codes,

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these legal codes, that
established who was allowed

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to work and be free,
and who wasn't.

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Cenex began their march,
but in this bitumen century

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they had committed
a felony worth

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punishment of theft of
rice, or coffee, or a debt

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of grain, rum, or land.

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Justice, always lofty, found
Cenex on the royal road thirsty

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for a source.

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And although Article I states
that the extraction of slaves

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is prohibited
without royal decree,

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article 2.1 makes an
exemption for those

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sentenced by tribunals.

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They were transported before
that crate of harvest,

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with its dangling
stalactite, where

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the guards checked inmates.

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One detailed the procedures, and
the other handling undressing.

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The Spaniard, with a
[? carved ?] voice,

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explained, while the
Gringa supervised the line.

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One repeated a tone
appearing before the other

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with a fixed hate
and a firm hand.

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The structure itself debated.

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The neomudéjar style,
its secular toil,

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contained a heart
free of reform,

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a great plaza for a Spanish city
planted with fugitive flowers.

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