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1904, states that at that time Elena Mateos was a widow and Rafael
Fernando was the son of her late husband Mariano Gerardo López; the vital records reveal that the father's death date was the same as the son's birthdate. The latter died a year later, on April 27, 1905. Regina Santiago argues that the father of Esperanza and her younger brother Adolfo was Gonzalo de Murga. In either case, Esperanza and Adolfo took the name of Elena's late husband, Mariano López. This marriage produced two older sons, Mariano (born 1900) and Elena.
483:). Shortly thereafter, Esperanza traveled to Nueva Rosita to deliver funds raised by the Comité de Defensa y Solidaridad con las Huelgas Mineras (Committee of Defense and Solidarity with the Miners' Strike), led by Felipe Sánchez Acevedo, Ángel Bassols Batalla, and herself in Mexico City. Just two days before the strike began, Esperanza wrote to Henry Schnautz that she could walk perfectly; she told him that she was working "like a demon to earn our daily bread."
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490:. The miners decided to walk to Mexico City to demand their rights, and organized the "Marcha del Hambre" (Hunger March), which arrived in the capital on March 10, 1951. Esperanza put up the women in her own house. Meanwhile, the majority of the miners stayed at the Deportivo 18 de Marzo sports complex.
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Esperanza Mateos, natural daughter of Elena Mateos. The baptismal certificate of her half-brother Rafael Fernando López Mateos, born March 12,
518:, she was shot in the neck. The doctor echoed rumors of suspicions that Esperanza had been assassinated, as had some leaders of the miners' strike. The death certificate only lists the cause of death as "wound caused by a firearm projectile".
278:) appeared, published by A. P. Márquez. This was the first Spanish translation authorized by Traven, completed by Esperanza López Mateos. In the following years she translated the following B. Traven books from English to Spanish:
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In June 1948 Esperanza began a painful spinal treatment to recover from the aftermath of an alpine accident. She underwent an operation, then spent ten weeks in the hospital and several weeks in bed after that.
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The children grew up in close contact with their cousins, Gabriel and
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Gabriel Figueroa in his
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Esperanza suffered from following her accident. However they also reported that according to José Álvarez Amézquita, the doctor who attended Esperanza and prepared the
363:, she translated some of Traven's political articles that appeared in various magazines. In 1946, journalist Antonio Rodríguez published a series of articles in the magazine
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Rodríguez, Antonio (August 31, 1946). "¿Hombre o fantasma? Autor de fama mundial, nadie sabe quién es" [Man or Ghost? World Famous Author, Nobody Knows Who He Is].
463:, in which he identified Traven as Berick Traven Torsvan, owner of the Parque Cachú in Acapulco. The interviewee refused to accept this identification with the writer.
177:, the Spanish Gonzalo de Murga had a daughter with an aristocratic English woman who left him; he later entrusted this child to Elena Mateos, who named her Esperanza.
441:. Later, the Mexican Jewish community built a school that bears the name of Esperanza López Mateos, as a gesture of appreciation for her work on behalf of refugees.
267:. From then on she worked as Traven's secretary, translator, and agent. For years the copyright of his books was held in the names of Esperanza and Josef Wieder.
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published a short article titled "Who is Bruno Traven?", signed by
William W. Johnson, which included a photograph of Esperanza and a brief interview with her.
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January 8, 1907. According to her baptismal certificate dated January 19, 1907 at the church of San Cosmas, the girl María Esperanza Adolfina Mateos is the
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Revueltas, José; Gill, Mario (1983). "La marcha de los mineros" [The March of the Miners].
401:, where she met with Henry Schnautz. From there she went to Europe, acting as a representative of
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976:"¿Esperanza was Traven's Daughter?"
898:. Lawrence Hill & Co. pp.
161:Esperanza López Mateos was born in
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510:, they argue that it was a
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475:broke out among miners of
299:Canasta of Mexican Stories
141:. She participated in the
1109:[White Bellies].
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963:– via Google Books.
528:Otra máscara de Esperanza
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392:The Letter and the Memory
283:El tesoro de Sierra Madre
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