Memoir of Mexico: Recent Episodes
Roger O’Keefe
In a small Mexican fishing village, a young boy and his unconventional father began an adventure that spans over 30 years. I am that boy. My fluent Spanish and a healthy dose of boyhood bravado meant peace and quiet was seldom the order of the day!
Caleta Cove Answers the Mystery of Why I lived in Mexico for Five Years Instead of Seattle, Washington.
I learned the art of bow and arrow lagoon fishing from the family that lived on the edge of the lagoon in Acapulco.
I met many a character in Mexico but this retired NYPD cop sticks out in my mind because of how he beat the odds year after year to me and my father’s amazement!
I take the newlyweds to see the infamous cliff divers of Acapulco only to discover tragedy in their marriage while still in its infancy.
Forty years after a bloody night in Zihuatanejo I discovered the truth behind the violence
The nightly violence continues as I struggle to understand who exactly would do this to us and why?
The late night murderous attack on my father while we slept peacefully in our beds produced a familiar intuitive understanding that I had experienced two years before when I tragically lost my mother.
The chronology of my many years spent living in Mexico. Being a young American boy and living with my unconventional father proved to be an adventure of a lifetime. In Zihuatanejo a Tropical Paradise with all its beauty and wonder held a secret few Gringos knew. Beautiful beaches and palm trees helped to disguise the violent dangerous underbelly of this small fishing village in southern mainland Mexico.
Our first night in Zihuatanejo. This evening turns out to be a competition with the Hotel owner and my father for the most beautiful woman in all of Mexico.
My first days in Zihuatanejo Public Mexican School; being the only Gringo proves challenging but then I fall in love with the most beautiful girl in this small remote fishing village and things get really interesting.
A strange turn of events leads to the murder of the best friend of the Captain of the Port.
After Many Trials and Tribulations I am finally accepted at the Mexican Public School in Zihuatanejo.
A ten year old American boy I spend the night alone with a group of terrorists/guerrillas deep in the remote jungles of Guerrero and live to tell the story.
Monsoon season turns deadly and I find myself right smack dab in the middle of the fight for the future of Zihuatanejo’s residents.
Chronicles my time spent in Mexico as a young boy with my unconventional father. An adventure spanning 30 years from an unwitting appearance in a guerrilla camp in the state of Guerrero to my near death - experience crossing a river alone after a storm, to dragging my father to safety after a violent attack, I learned that life in another country is fraught with danger to go along with the beautiful sunshine and tropical beaches.