The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The “Gettysburg Address” – a mere 272 words spoken by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863 – was to become the “Gettysburg formula,” a rhetorical “sleight of hand” strengthening a document that created something no one believed could work: a democratic society born of revolution.
Thirty years ago this month I was sitting at pueblo cantina with Nacho Mejia, who had worked at La Posada Ajijic some years before that and in the 1960s in Jocotepec’s La Quinta Inn. We were enjoying some nostalgia, including numerous tales of folks we know with a thirst not only for maguey juice and cerveza, but often for more excitement than they knew how to handle.
Last week in this space the differences between Mexican and “gringo” assessments of Jalisco’s early past were viewed.
Last week in a revealing discussion with several normally easy-going Mexican friends, the awareness by some U.S. citizens concerning Jalisco’s early development came under rough assessment.
Along the north shore of Lake Chapala in the 1960s-70s, medical care was scarce.
Fiesta time was a fine time for a drifting youngster from Nebraska inclined to lie about his age, to land in the cobbled town of Mazatlan.
In the yellow light of a petrolio lantern (the electrical power was out again), Marcelino “Chelino” Mejia washed down a warm verdolaga taco with a cup of thick café de olla.
