" BICENTENNIAL OF INDEPENDENCE DE MEXICO "

16 - SEPTEMBER - 2010

At the end of 1815 hostile environment of conflict that began five years earlier had branded the geology of New Spain. The wounds were felt in the political bodies in parochial organizations and between families.
The cities and prosperous villages before Bajio showed the ravages of high-intensity war, with its load of disruptions of daily life and the depopulation and Central and South felt the threats of violence. Throughout the viceroyalty trade was reduced to elemental exchanges, while farms and ranches producing just enough for local consumption. The abandonment and insecurity felt in many roads and towns, especially those who, being the crossroads of many small regional routes must vitality to the economy of the Kingdom, such as those linking the ports of Acapulco - Mexico - Puebla - Veracruz , or “the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro”, and even the mountain villages north and south.