Ray Acosta

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.

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David Bodwell

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 & Coffee Company. He is married with four children and is a naturalized Mexican citizen. Email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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E.G. Brady

E.G. Brady, born in Seattle, was a railroad worker, taxi driver and professional musician before moving to México, 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.

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Richard Grabman

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 México since 2007. He is also the writer of the daily Mexican cultural and political website, The Mex Files. Email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Joanna van der Gracht de Rosado

Joanna van der Gracht, as a a naïve tour guide from Canada, met—and married—native Yucateco Jorge Rosado, a story she shares in Magic Made in Mexico, an “insider” with an outsider’s perspective on life in México and the interplay between the new “international” culture and the traditional [Mexican] way. With Jorge, she founded Tecnologia Turistica Total, the first higher educational institute in the Yucatán to offer a degree in tourism.

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