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gave orders that they be arrested, but without revealing the motives of their conspiracy in order to avoid excitement among the populace. All the conspirators were apprehended and spent many years in prison. The trial was long, and did not reach a verdict. Some of them died in prison. Portilla
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After the successful outcome of the rebellion, the plan was to appeal to the people to decide what form of government should be established in Mexico. The conspirators apparently favored a
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posed no threat to Spanish rule, nevertheless it was a shock to the rulers. Coming only 11 years before the
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became an insulting term for the latter.) Those present agreed to rise in arms to rid the country of
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The plan agreed on was to free prisoners, and with them storm the
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industries. All of them were relatives or friends of Portilla.
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to initiate a popular uprising under the patronage of the
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employee in the New Spain tax collectors' office in the
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