The author was a friend of the director of the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science Escuela de Agricultura y Veterinaria, Joaquín Varela, who one afternoon in July of 1865 invited Jiménez to visit the cornfields of Santa Rita and Santa Rosa “which were completely overrun with chahuistle.”
El autor era amigo del director de la Escuela de Agricultura y Veterinaria, Joaquín Varela, quien una tarde de julio de 1865 invitó a Jiménez a realizar una visita a las milpas de Santa Rita y Santa Rosa “que se encontraban completamente atacadas por el chahuistle”.