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James Carlos Blake was born in Mexico and raised in California, Texas, and Florida. After serving as a U.S. Army paratrooper, he attended college in Florida and Ohio. He has lived and worked in the Far East and the Middle East. He now lives in Florida.
In 1913, my great-aunt Adela ran away with a boy intent on joining Pancho Villa’s revolutionary Army of the North. She was sixteen. The Revolution promised freedom from tyrants such as Díaz, Huerta, and her own father the rurales captain. Only her youngest brother did not disown her.
April 1993Esperanza had informally inherited the house from Salvador Escondido, her husband by common law, who one morning kissed her goodbye at the door, left for work in the fields, and never came back.
April 1988In the fields you worked in the open sun, sweating like a mule, crawling down the rows on your knees, your back bent and your spine cracking, breathing dust and insecticide fumes.
October 1987Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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