Ray Acosta is a second-generation Mexican-American, and all four of his
grandparents left
Mexico
during the height of the Mexican Revolution.
Ray has always had a love of history, but his studies of the
Mexican Revolution did not start until 1990 when Ken Burns released his
masterful Civil War epic. After watching
in awe the entire series, Ray was jolted by Ken Burns’s closing comments about
how the Civil War has had an effect on all Americans. That got Ray to thinking, “My family was not
involved in the American Civil War. The
war had no impact on me and my family.
What then has had a major impact on my life?” It would be the Mexican Revolution. Ray’s four grandparents would never have met
had it not been for the Mexican Revolution.
If they had never met, his parents would never have been born, and he
would not have been born.
Retired after thirty years as an engineer and financial analyst for the communications industry, Ray lectures on Mexican history to supper clubs, historical societies, and other
groups in the Los Angeles
area.
David Bodwell, author of Enjoy México in Spanish, was raised in New
Mexico and Kansas in a newspapering family, later working as a
technical editor and writer, and owned a motorcycle business before
moving to Mazatlán in 1998 to start the Mazatlán Book and Coffee
Company. He is married with four children and a naturalized Mexican
citizen. Email to: publisher@editorialmazatlan.com
E.G. Brady, born in Seattle, was a railroad worker, taxi driver and
professional musician before moving to Mexico, where he married and was
faced with the prospect of living a "normal" life. He promises to let
us know when he figures out what that means.
Richard Finks is chair of the graduate translation program at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara.
Richard Grabman, originally from western New York, has lived and worked
on the Texas border, or in México, since the 1990s. A technical writer
and sometime news reporter, Grabman lived in Mexico City from 2001 to
2005, and has been living on the Pacific coast of Mexico since 2007. He is also the writer of the daily Mexican cultural and political website, The Mex Files. Email to: richard@editorialmazatlan.com
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