On my walk back to Guadalajara through the narrow streets of Zapopan, I stopped to talk with the left-wing local representatives of the Mexican political party that lost the last election. The walls are covered with photos of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and López Obrador, who lost the election a few months ago to Felipe Caldedrón. They insist that Mexicans in the USA make less than a dollar an hour and that Cuba has the best medical care and educational system in Latin America, so I changed the subject to Mexican literature. They were surprised that I knew most of the authors, including her favorite Enrique González Martínez, one of whose poems I recited for her. Later, I took pictures of murals in the Zapopan city hall. You will recognize the leading revolutionaries that inspire leftist Mexicans. Ho Chi Minh, Karl Marx, Lenin and the ubiquitous Fidel Castro. The last picture was taken nearby in a record (that dates me) or CD store, showing my son James' band Maroon5's new album as #1 in Mexico this week. Nobody is buying Fidel Castro's albums these days.
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