Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, biographer of Pancho Villa and Ernesto "Che" Guevara as well as a crime novelist, in Mexico City on Feb. 10, 2017. (Omar Torres / AFP via Getty Images) He is ...

México, 12 oct (EFE).México, 12 oct (EFE). — La tribu de los yaquis, que vive en el estado de Sonora, enfrentó un “genocidio” entre los siglos XIX y XX que motivó “una guerra popular que duró cuarenta ...

Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern ...

""If anyone wants to read this book as a simple mystery novel, that's his business,"" sniffs Argentinean journalist Rudolfo Walsh in an epigraph. Bill Verner translates Paco Ignacio Taibo II's spare, ...

Paco Ignacio Taibo II and his fictional protagonist, Hector Belascoaran Shayne, follow crime trails in a dark, violent Mexico City. But the author... Sleuth Keeps His Good Eye On Mexico City's Crime ...

Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo (b. January 11, 1949), better known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT, is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most ...

Mexico City — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday defended his choice of writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II as head of the Economic Culture Fund (FCE), despite a controversial comment ...

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He is among Mexico's most celebrated novelists, historians and left-wing activists. But Paco Ignacio Taibo II is best known for his fictional alter ego: Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, a one-of-a-kind ...