Part 3: Sanchez, Tepoztlan, and Mexico Today
19781No. 21 by Richard Critchfield Lookto Suffering, Lookto Joy South America Part Ill: ~anchez,~e~oztl6n, and Mexico Today The central figure in The Children of famous old restaurant long cele- producer Hall Bartlett came to his Sanchez is the authoritarian, self- brated as a meeting place of Mexican house for a meal in April while filming centered father, whose absence of intellectuals. It is not far from Mexico location shots in Mexico City's affection toward his four oldest City's main plaza, or the Zocalo, with Tepito slum, La Lagunilla market, children, who tell the story, made the its great Cathedral and Presidential and Chapultepec park. He said they book such a moving, strange Palace. Hernandez lives in the same assured him that the picture would tragedy. house in Casa Blanca vecindad or be "decent" and "an example for slum tenement-"Casa Grande" in other families." As Oscar Lewis described his first the book-in the poor Tepito impression in October 1956: "The section, a ten-minute walk away. He "They promised to pay me and the father, Jesus Sanchez, walked in invited me to his home for an inter- children some money when the brusquely, carrying a sack of food view. picture comes out," Hernandez said, supplies over his shoulder. He was a "I'll take anything they give me. short, stocky, energetic man, with Hernandez, who looks incredibly fit Unless it's just a little. But they told Indian features, dressed in blue and who smiled and laughed fre- me, they'd show the picture all over denim overalls and a straw hat, a quently during our talk, guessed, the world." He said the author's cross between a peasant and factory "I'm about 70, but I still feel young." w~dow,Mrs.
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