CORTINA'S LAST DAYS UNDER HOUSE ARREST BY DIAZ LA D.F.

(Ed.'s Note: We had sent El Rrun-Rrun's Mexico City correspondent G.F. McHale-Scully to look for the grave of northern Mexico-South Texas caudillo Juan Cortina. Unfortunately, Jerry, the abuelo of Browntown soccer, apparently has had a slight deviation in plans, and has not found Cheno's last resting place in El Cementerio de Dolores in the place of Los Hombres Ilustres.

Fortunately, El Rrun-Rrun's historical consultant – Dr. Maria-Tere Hernandez-Ramirez, Ph.D., Undergraduate Director of the World Cultures and Literature Program of the University of Houston – heard our pleas and was gracious enough to send us this photo of Cortina's final resting place and an account by Jerry Thompson on the last days of his life. He died in exile in Oct. 30, 1894.

There will be some consequences for McHale's dilly-dallying on the assignment, but for now we extend our gratitude to Dr. Tere for her fine attentions. Cortina had always wanted to rest in his native Rio Grande watershed birth place, but was denied that by dictator Porfirio Diaz and his enemies in South Texas. Efforts to fulfill his final wishes were stymied by the advent of WWI and then the Great Depression. Even his nemesis Rip Ford was sympathetic to the caudillo's last wishes. Will his desire to rest in his native soil ever be granted?)