Mexico City

I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many…

The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-bl…