Guadalupe Garcia McCall Guadalupe Garcia McCall Guadalupe Garcia McCall is an award-winning author, poet, and educator. She was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. She is the recipient of the 2012 Pura Belpré Medal for narrative. Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Coauhila, a Mexican state adjacent to Texas. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was six years old, and grew up in Eagle Pass, a small border town in South Texas. When McCall was 17 years old, “she lost her mother to cancer and found solace in her writing and in her education". She holds a B.A.
Sita Valles the alleged putsch of May 27, 1977. She is thought to have been shot in August of that year. The book written on her by journalist Leonor Figueiredo says: "It is said that Sita Valles was shot at five in the morning of August 1, 1977. One shot on each leg, one shot on each arm. The body fell into the ditch that had been previously dug, before the deadly firing. Of what remained of Sita, after the torture and the orgy of rape by the men of the Angola Information and Security Directorate (DISA), the regime's political police. A