Stories of Paraná - The Green Revolution in Water

Stories of Paraná - The Green Revolution in Water

The Green Revolution in Water
Gomes y Pablo Monzon

Soon will make a century that the federalist revolution lived the most important and dramatic in its outcome land of Paraná. The heroic resistance of Lapa, and the cruel murder of Baron Cerro Azul are almost the only references that are made today about this episode.
But it has much more story to tell, and even left something happened here at Agua Verde, Curitiba.
Had my wife's grandfather, the old Romedio Dorigo, scares and trouble you went through that time, when, newly arrived from his native Italy, came to live in the neighborhood, hardly able to speak Portuguese, and having no idea why What warred maragatos and woodpeckers.
While Lapa bravely resisted the siege imposed by the maragatos Gumercindo Saraiva, Curitiba, which had been abandoned by the cowardly defenders woodpeckers, was already in the hands of the rebels.

To cover the costs of the occupation, the invaders proceeded compulsory collection of merchants, manufacturers or anyone who could pluck some money.
Mostly brigands of Rio Grande do Sul, roamed the city terrorizing the population with their methods.
Pity that they react or refused to contribute, was immediately accused of woodpecker, and in many cases slaughtered right there in the middle of the street.
The Green Water that time was almost only populated by Italian immigrants who lived on farms where there were no roads.
How were poor, the criminals did not bother them.
But the blacksmith Romedio, who had his business on Main Street, where today there is the Cicles Green Water in Argentina, was a constant victim of ailments.
Or contributed, or was past the knife, threatened the gauchos.
The field of maragatos not last long.
Thanks to the fierce resistance of Baran and his soldiers in Lapa, rumors of war have changed, and they had to flee to the south.
But it was even worse, according to the old Dorigo, as the vengeful woodpeckers (government troops under the command of General Everton Managers), to return to the city, went from house to house, and accused accomplices of those who had contributed revolutionaries.
When proven the charge at the discretion of them, of course, was worth the shot.
It happened with Baron Serro Azul, Mato Guedes, and many other illustrious Paraná.
One of the times that these milicos were bothering him in his smithy, had the old Romedio, then a young, burly blacksmith, now with the nerves to the skin by constant tension, had a strange and unexpected reaction.
It seemed, he said, that the revolutionary spirit of Garibaldi himself had embodied, and made his blood boil Italian, already hot by nature.
For now hand a sledgehammer, and went toward the terrified soldiers, giving sledgehammer aimlessly and screaming in that accent that some older still have the Green Water: "Io non xo maragato ne woodpecker, oxtia, io xo picafero. io .. xo xo picafero picafero ... io ... " The woodpeckers lay on the run and never returned, and Romedio Dorigo, as a precaution, also spent a long time hiding.

Gomes y Pablo Monzon, micro-entrepreneur


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.