Last night we watched a film about the Mexican revolution starring Pedro Infante and my wife explained a little about what was going on to our teenage children: "Unfortunately, during the Mexican revolution, our family was on the wrong side. They had land and haciendas and property and the poor people, especially the peasants, were terribly exploited. The poor decided to fight for their rights to the land and to a decent life. "The revolutionaries were not saints; they were rough and ready, uncultured people. They regarded refinement and books as the mark of the bourgeoisie. My great grandfather was a headmaster, but lived on the hacienda my great-grandmother inherited. When the revolutionaries came they didn't kill him. They left him weeping, surrounded by his burned books. "Of course your family were Mexicans, like everyone else, but they thought they were apart - that they were special. They should have identified with the majority, but didn't." *
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head