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An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923
Collier Books
August 2005
240 pages
ISBN: 0938317911
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
El Paso/Juarez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican
Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and
archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories
at the roots of the greatest Latin American revolution: The
sainted beauty queen Teresita inspires revolutionary fervor
and is rumored to have blessed the first rifles of the
revolutionaries; anarchists publish newspapers and hatch
plots against the hated Porfirio Diaz regime; Mexican outlaw
Pancho Villa eats ice cream cones and rides his Indian
motorcycle happily through downtown; El Paso's gringo mayor
wears silk underwear because he is afraid of Mexican lice;
John Reed contributes a never-before-published essay; young
Mexican maids refuse to be deloused so they shut down the
border and back down Pershing's men in the process;
vegetarian and spiritualist Francisco Madero institutes the
Mexican revolutionary junta in El Paso before crossing into
Juarez to his ill-fated presidency and assassination; and
bands play Verdi while firing squads go about their deadly
business. Romo's work does what Mike Davis' City of Quartz
did for Los Angeles-it presents a subversive and contrary
vision of the sister cities during this crucial time for
both countries.
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