Chapter 1El Rancho Estrada, Estado Chihuahua
December 23, 1913
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Margarita Engracia Estrada y Calderon paced the comfortable room she shared with her younger sister as she read from the textbook she’d brought home for the holidays. “That’s what the Russians are seeking, what the French and the Norte Americanos revolted and fought for. It is what is right, hermanita. The oppression of the peasant and the working class must end!”
Concepcion Teresa rolled over on her lace-canopied bed and yawned. “I find it hard to get excited about all this politics and struggle,” she said. “How can you grow so inflamed over the plight of the least of the people? I’d rather talk about the gran baile Papa is going to hold for the Twelfth Ni
