Mexico Life Fernando Fuentes, born and bred in Mexico City, gives free historic tours so that his vast and detailed knowledge of the city’s past will live on after he dies.
For the love of a Mexico City gone by, one resident shares his knowledge Fernando Fuentes tours of the Roma-Condesa area are informed by lived experience
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Tour guide Fernando Fuentes is a bottomless well of information.
We are walking through the Roma Sur neighborhood in Mexico City, which happens to be where I live, and he is rambling off a string of names that link Mexico’s most famous president, Benito Juárez, to the architect who built the school across from us on the sidewalk. I’m not sure if I totally follow, it having to do with the president’s personal secretary, who became his son-in-law and then someone’s grandchildren. And somewhere along the way, someone was Cuban.