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was the hell preceding the 1968 Olympic Games. The wound has remained open in this country’s memory to this day. In the following decades, the massacre would inspire innumerable songs, novels, movements, and films. Monuments, statues, and monoliths were erected, plazas and streets named in honor of the fallen.
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    The grievances against the government took a toll on its authority. Once the smoke of the massacre cleared, the party in power, with help from the FBI, proposed to capture the movement leadership and released a list with the names and photographs of those implicated. The Country Bible was among them. The star of the moment wore a flower costume in the photograph. It looked like a joke. We didn’t know if they were looking for a possible political prisoner or Peter Gabriel during his Genesis days. But the government found it impossible to find a photo in which she wasn’t dressed as some character. In the photo from her primary school graduation, she wore a Menace Jr. wrestling mask. In the one from high school, she was dressed as the old man from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway .
    The people were offended: How is it possible that the president would send soldiers, unprepared, without arms, to combat those bastards sent by the Tepito Merchants?
    Every time something politically inconvenient comes up, the government creates a distraction. A few months before the Olympic Games, so that the people would forget the Jalisco-style massacre, Díaz Ordaz ordered Channel Eleven to create a reality show. Even though it was illegal, piracy had become fashionable, so it therefore became the theme of the show. The format was designed to reward the contestant who managed to copy the most records in a certain period of time. They settled on this because they’d run out of other ideas. There were already reality shows about people wrestling cows, about hip-hop stars, about wrestlers, about beauties and nerds, even one about aspiring comics.
    With this move, Díaz Ordaz told his government secretary, Luis Echeverría, we’ll capture those involved in the pirating sector. Oh, yes, sir, said the secretary, but what about the smugglers, those who sell stolen auto parts, the ranch hands? Don’t get ahead of yourself, my dear right-hand man, everyone will get what they deserve. You just watch me play politics. These ones must fall first because they’re the biggest pinkos. In any case, the high command assures me that The Country Bible, a dangerous terrorist who leads the movement, will sign up for the contest.
    The government wasn’t too far off base. To keep her head down for a while, The Country Bible tried out for the cast of The Pirate Academy and was accepted. Her popularity as a PC pirate member would give her away during the contest. She’d be arrested before the finale.
    The Country Bible knew they were looking for her and, as a counterintelligence measure to avoid being recognized, she showed up dressed as a wrestler. Menace Jr., no less.
    She wore a mask with the following features:
STATUS : She has not lost the mask.
    MATERIAL : Dublin.
    DESIGN : One of the most minimalist masks in wrestling, it has a seriousness that elevates it practically to elegance. All black, this mask’s only aesthetic element is the silver border around the eyes, nose, and mouth. An engraved white cross adorns the forehead.
    OBSERVATIONS : Part of a great wrestling dynasty.
    MANUFACTURER : Jesús Andrade.
    So as not to drag out the programming, the results were posted every day at eight o’clock on Channel Eleven on the El Recreo Show . The Country Bible made the finals thanks to the calls from the public, who saved her three times when she was nominated for expulsion.
    The finale was broadcast from the Auditorio Nacional. The host, Raquel Bigorra, stirred up the audience, encouraging them to call call call right now and vote for their favorite. Menace Jr. was second out of the four candidates. The difference between the two top