PHILADELPHIA -- On a quiet morning in March, members of the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia gathered under a green awning at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, to visit an unmarked grave. The grassy spot, sitting empty and mostly unrecognized for 71 years, is an easily overlooked foot-sized gap in between rows and rows of tombstones. Underneath lies a beloved artist, abandoned so far from his home.
"Bienvenidas y bienvenidos todos a esta celebración...para recordar a un gran diplomático, escritor, poeta de nuestro país que está enterrado en este cementerio Holy Cross," said Head Consul Carlos Obrador Garrido to the small audience. "Welcome all to this celebration...to remember a great diplomat, writer, poet of our country."
The group was paying respects to Gilberto Owen Estrada, a notable poet and diplomat from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, and one of Mexico's great 20th century writers.
