The headline in el Noroeste de Sinaloa read simply “El Mundo llora a Benedetti”. Although a citizen of tiny Uruguay, the poet, novelist, playwright, journalist andexile for sixty years recorded, and gave meaning to, not only the Uruguayan experience, or the Latin American experience, nor even enriched the Spanish language, but pondered the essense of what it meant to be human in an uncertain world.
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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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