Victory draws near, the fight is at an end. The last battles are already being fought and in these solemn moments, standing and respectfully uncovered before the Nation, we await the decisive hour, the precise moment in which the peoples sink or are saved, depending on the use they make of the conquered sovereignty, that sovereignty for so long taken from our people, and that which with the triumph of the Revolution will return unharmed, as it has been preserved and we have defended it here, in the mountains that have been its sole and our stronghold. It will return dignified and strengthened never to be tainted by imposture or chained by tyranny again. Such a beautiful conquest has cost the Mexican people a terrible sacrifice, and it is a duty, an imperative duty for everyone, to ensure that this sacrifice is not sterile; for our part, we are willing not to leave an obstacle in front of us, whatever the nature and whatever the circumstances may a...