LUIS FELIPE RODRÍGUEZ

By Luis Felipe Rodriguez The Royal Hospital of San Rafael was inaugurated on October 24, 1770. During the first half of the 18th century, the residents of San Miguel el …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Palacios On the second part of this story, we talked about all the stalls at the market after 1889. The market suffered several mishaps. A gale …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Palacios You can read Part 1 here. Last week we were talking about the old market and the people who sold there. Now we are going …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Palacios Last week I accompanied my wife and our friend and colleague, Josefina Valle, to the Ignacio Ramírez Market to order a flower arrangement. Walking through …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Jesús Nicolás Cuéllar Hernández, one of San Miguel de Allende’s few native artists, was born at Calle Jesus 42 in 1927 and spent most of his …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez On September 13, 1864, Austrian Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, who had been named Emperor of Mexico, arrived in San Miguel de Allende. Maximilian was said to …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Palacios In part one of this story, we saw the beginning of Mexico’s 1926-1929 conflict between the church and the state that came to be known …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez Palacios Jean Meyer wrote several volumes about the Cristero wars. This is a redacted excerpt. The 1917 Constitution granted the State the right to administer the …

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By Luis Felipe Rodríguez After El Pípila’s heroic actions at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in 1810, possibly carried out to protect his family from reprisals by the Spaniards, he and …

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By Luis Felipe Rodriguez On July 25, 1863, an emblematic character from San Miguel passed away. His life story is intimately connected to the history of San Miguel and Mexico. …

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