The child of slaves who posed as a Mexican citizen and became a millionaire
On September 24, 1923, a millionaire by the name of Guillermo Enrique Eliseo died in the American Hospital in Mexico City.
On September 24, 1923, a millionaire by the name of Guillermo Enrique Eliseo died in the American Hospital in Mexico City.
If one attended the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the 1960s as a minority, as did Sandra Cisneros, one would have learned a thing or two about marketing as well as writing.
A close friend of Ulysses S. Grant, a shopping companion to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a brilliant young diplomat who helped save the Mexican Republic, Matías Romero is a little-known figure today.
On a chilly morning in February 1926, a caretaker on his routine patrol of the city cemetery in Parral, Chihuahua noticed something strange.