Pancho Villa in 1914, hanging… not a recalcitrant landlord or perverted priest… but a street sign on what had been since the 1540s “calle de los Plateros” (Silversmith’s Street) in Mexico City, renamed (at Villa’s “suggestion”) calle Franciso I. Madero.
Villa threatened to shoot anyone who removed the sign… and no one has… even though he, himself, was shot 90 years ago today.
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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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