Abstract: It was in 1917 or 1918 that my mother emigrated from Asturias to Mexico. She came from a very large family of nine or ten children. When my grandmother died my grandfather had got remarried to a woman called Andrea who disliked the children of the first marriage; she couldn't bear to have them in the house. So my mother left for South America, at the same time as her sister Araceli who got married on the boat out and settled in Buenos Aires in Argentina. When my mother had got to Mexico and managed to save a bit of money she sent it home to bring over her two brothers and her sister. The sister, Serafina, later returned home and lives in Infiesto and one brother, José, is living in New York. He went there from Cuba when Castro came to power. The youngest brother, Fernando, went over to Mexico with another man from Infiesto and together they set up in business. They had a canteen near a silver mine and one day the revolutionaries arrived, I don't know whether it was Zapata or Pancho Villa, and he went off with them to make the revolution. But he was captured by soldiers and hung.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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