" Season of Zopilotes " is the title with which we find a book full with nostalgia, feeling obliged when, letter by letter you go along with the author each one of the facts that resulted in the murderous murder of Francisco Ignacio Madero and Jose Maria Pino Suárez. This is a book from Paco Ignacio Taibo II that takes place in the famous“ Decena Tragica”, this moment of the Mexican revolution was full of blood and an infinite number Treachery; in his book, the author tells the story of the before, the after and the moment of the of Francisco I. Madero, before Francisco Madero, the president of Mexico was Porfirio Diaz, his government was full of social disadvantage and no equality for workers and people that work on the rural sides of Mexico, all of this together lead to people organizing a revolution. Taibo II sees the revolution as an opportunity to grow and proliferate in the high society for people like demagogues and populists, which he calls“ zopilotes or Buzzards”.
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Literary criticism
By: Kevin Murray
T E M P O R A D A D E Z O P I L O T E S
" Season of Zopilotes " is the title with which we find a book full with nostalgia, feeling obliged when, letter by letter you go along with the author each one of the facts that resulted in the murderous murder of Francisco Ignacio Madero and Jose Maria Pino Suárez. This is a book from Paco Ignacio Taibo II that takes place in the famous“ Decena Tragica”, this moment of the Mexican revolution was full of blood and an infinite number Treachery; in his book, the author tells the story of the before, the after and the moment of the of Francisco I. Madero, before Francisco Madero, the president of Mexico was Porfirio Diaz, his government was full of social disadvantage and no equality for workers and people that work on the rural sides of Mexico, all of this together lead to people organizing a revolution. Taibo II sees the revolution as an opportunity to grow and proliferate in the high society for people like demagogues and populists, which he calls“ zopilotes or Buzzards”.