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.
Delia Guerrero Coronado degree in Administration of Nursing Services. Her involvement in PRI politics began in earnest in 2003, when she was elected as a town councilor in Ciudad Valles for a three-year term. She also coordinated the National Fair of the Huasteca Potosina, held in Ciudad Valles, from 2004 to 2005. After a time in which she worked in various PRI positions and was a municipal-level coordinator in the early stages of the PRI's San Luis Potosí gubernatorial campaign, Guerrero ran for and won a seat in the federal Chamber of Deputies from the Fourth Federal Electoral District of San Luis Potosí,