- El Tilcuate, or Damasio, keeps reporting back to Pedro Páramo about his various alliances in the Revolution.
- First he is with Venustiano Carranza, then with General Obregon, then there is peace.
- Finally Father Rentería joins the fighting, and Damasio decides to join him. Pedro really doesn't care either way, because he's so grief-stricken about his dead wife.