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Ernesto pushed the school door. It creaked lightly and gave way. He stopped on the threshold to survey the dilapidated state of the room. The only furniture was a table and a chair of unpolished pine. Splinters were always clinging to Ernesto's garments and tearing them. The furniture was for the teacher. The children squatted on the floor.
There was no blackboard on the wattle walls, no map, nor anything to show what the room was used for. Felipe had cut a photograph of Lázaro Cárdenas from a newspaper. The President did not stand out at all among the crowd of peasants. His portrait was placed very high, almost on the ceiling, and had been stuck with candle grease.