That's right, i'd forgotten, Gral Z was a tejano ... very capable man, without the wars he would have done well in business, it is said, but he could just as well have ended up a professor, or running the country in place of Díaz .... as to whether he was full-blooded indian or had some spanish blood, there is question, but he was at a critical point one of the very few in whom Juárez could place complete trust, his mejicanidad being beyond dispute ..... he died in Puebla, only a few months later, of typhus .... his name means a lot to the family of my wife, can't say why and that's a shame, it's an interesting story [to do with a place named after IZ, no family relation]
Ever hear of an essay, 'If Lee Had Not Won The Battle Of Gettysburg'? .... short piece Winston Churchill cranked out in response to an editor's challenge, some time in the 1920s i think .... lots of irony incorporated, on what actually did happen, through the year of 1919 ..... well there were a number of similar pieces written in México in the 1940s and 50s, one goes on in detail about the great improvement of life under Presidente Ignacio Zaragoza .... the name of Zapata comes up, also the name of the man who had Zapata shot - Carranza -g- |
