Last night, after the early Mass for the patron of our local parish church, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, there was a small fiesta, featuring a banda group. I recognized the tune, but it took me a minute or two to realize what the guys were playing — “In heaven there is no beer…”. That explains why the Virgin came to Earth, I guess.
Nor, it seems, is there beer in more temporal paradises:
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
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