El complot mongol by Rafael Bernal5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Rafael Bernal’s 1969 novel appeared at a critical moment in Mexican history. When the novel opens, he is working as a pistolero – effectively, a police hitman – and any ideals he once had seemed to have died inside him. They need others to do it for them, and that’s where Garcia, the central character in The Mongolian Conspiracy, comes in. They of course kill also, but they never do the dirty work themselves. Cold, duplicitous figures who occupy offices in their suits now pull the strings. ![]() Real men like Villa and Zapata no longer call the shots. By 1968, the Mexican politicians have long since betrayed the Revolution. But what he once did to help his country transform itself into something better, he now does strictly as a job. As a young man, he fought in the Mexican Revolution, serving under Pancho Villa, his killing backed by a just cause. Over the course of his life he has killed people: men, women, a priest. Filiberto Garcia is a sixty year old Mexican policeman. ![]() It’s 1968, the height of the Cold War, and we are in Mexico City. ![]()
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