The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Enrique Peña Nieto, Barack Obama and Stephen Harper, leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, went through a necessary political\economic ritual February 19 in Toluca.
Sixteen-year-old Concha Rosales was riding her sorrel gelding and reading a book. She frowned as a light breeze rippled the pages of Mariano Azuela’s “Los de Abajo” (The Underdogs).
Triumphs, challenges, harsh disappointment, astonishing skills still float in the minds of millions. As are strange tales proving that Sochi, Russia, is what many people have said it is – a weird, troubled dictatorial piece of the Cold War.
We were at work on the steep roof of the templo of Las Guayabas, a minute pueblo where my friend Chema Rosales‘ grandfather had been born.
Today, February 15, in 1950, a “literary” event destined to change Mexico forever occurred.
“Vigilantes on the March” was the rousing title of an op-ed piece in the New York Times February 3.
Sixteen-year-old Concha Rosales was riding fence again. She got that hard job because when her father was attending to other chores, her cousin, Lalo, took his place.