Arturo Morales
Arturo Morales is an historian we met while in San Miguel. He taught us a lot of history about Mexico and connected most of it to the US. We learnt a wide range of things. We stared off talking about the independence of Mexico in 1810-1821. Even though his accent was strong we were able to comprehend every word and cover a lot of topics.
Mr. Morales seemed very galvanized about the fact that six student of different nationalities and schools that all live in New York, would be highly interested in what I'd like to call the authentic history of Mexico. I saw this through the way he wanted to enrich our knowledge of the history and at the same time slowly covered them so each point would be saturated in our minds.
We really did a lot of work in covering a lot of topics and took the time to listen with in enthusiasm. Some topic we covered, just to name a few were; Mexico's independence(1810-1821) Conspiracy in San Miguel (1810), USA invasion (1821-1846), French invasion (1862-1867), Social Revolution (1910-1920), Presidentialism (1934-1999), URSS-launch first atomic bomb (1949) and the Olympics in Mexico (1968).
