The Bones of Cuauhtémoc By Seamus O'Sparks on March 30, 2017 — 28 mins read The Bones of Cuauhtémoc -He dreams and dreams Kiko and the lavender moon- An hour out of Laredo we stopped for gas at an all-night convenience store. We were heading towards Brownsville Texas on US Route 83. The van smelled like stale sweat, salted nuts, and sour farts. That was the way rock n roll... More
One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico By Seamus O'Sparks on November 2, 2013 — 1 min read One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The mythos is that the Mexica (Aztecs) believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl returning. This belief gave Cortes the kind of berth he needed to topple an empire. In the wake of death, disease,... More