Andrés Henestrosa
Andrés Henestrosa | |
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Senator | |
In office 1982–1988 | |
Constituency | Oaxaca |
Personal details | |
Born | PRI | November 25, 1906
Occupation | Writer |
Andrés Henestrosa Morales (November 25, 1906 – January 10, 2008) was a
Youth and studies
Andrés Henestrosa started studying at
Henestrosa contributed in many ways to Zapotec culture, keeping a line of investigation and exaltation of it; he also was one of the Mexican exponents of the literary movement called
In 1936, the Guggenheim Foundation gave him a scholarship to investigate about Zapotec culture and visited United States at the linguistic, resulting in Zapotec language phonetization, the adaptation of the Latin alphabet and a Zapotec–Spanish dictionary. During this trip, while in New Orleáns in 1937, he wrote one of his most famous books: My Mother’s Portrait ("El retrato de mi madre").
He was a member of the
September 26, 1949
Henestrosa was supposed to be on a DC-3 that crashed on September 26, 1949, killing all 23 onboard. He had a premonition and instead boarded a train from Tapachula, the city he was traveling from, to Mexico City.[1]
Political career
In 1929, he supported (as did many UNAM students) the presidential campaign of José Vasconcelos, being an active part of the campaign acts and writing many essays and chronicles. But almost all of the original hand-wrote transcriptions were lost, being published in many magazines and newspapers.
In 1982 he was elected senator for his home state, Oaxaca, as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Awards
References
- ^ "Especial: Así murió Blanca Estela Pavón, entrañable compañera de Infante". 12 November 2019.