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The One That Got Away

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The One That Got Away, 2015

Video, 1:57 min.
Color and sound

Don Onésimo Ventura Martinez  tells the story of a rabbit he hunted where he lives on the former island of Xico which had been the property of Hernán Cortés, the Spanish invader, who would whip indigenous peoples 100 lashes if they were found to be hunting rabbits there on their land now stolen by him.

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