With the recent death of 94 year-old Doña Chuy, current memory of the wall and gate is becoming mistier, receding as a shadow touched by darkness, falling away into the unrecorded past. Built in turbulent, repressive times following the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Rebellion, it remained, until 1935, a veritable wedge, separating the two barrios of the community destined, as it grew, to become a village on the southwest shore of Lake Chapala. On the east side of the wall lived the "prietos", dark skinned indigenous people; on the west side lived the "güeros", lighter skinned, mixed blood mestizos.
