“To every village its saint, and to every saint his fiesta,” as the saying goes here. And for every cause, a fighter to wrestle with the problem. A few luchadores I’ve run across recently:
From the far fringes of the U.S. right-wing, those rudos who aren’t clear on the concept, Baracho Liberal:
And… fighting for truth, justice and typography, hailing from the village of San Serif… it’s El Vética!:
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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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