The Mexican Chubasco

About the Book

The Mexican Chubasco is an epic novel about the Mexican Revolution as seen through the eyes of Ruben Valderano, the middle son of a wealthy Sonora landowner.  A clash with his older brother leads to schooling in Spain and France.  After returning to Mexico, Ruben becomes a military leader and a key ally of Alvaro Obregon, Mexico's future president.  Ruben becomes a military observer during WWI and has romantic liaisons with several women in Europe, eventually marrying and divorcing.  He returns to Mexico with his young son and helps Obregon become president, and is at his side when the president elect is assassinated.  Later he is shot by would be killers and leaves Mexico and relocates to the U.S.  He becomes an international authority and successful writer on modern warfare, and through his American wife befriends Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.  He returns to Mexico in 1936 at the request of President Lazaro Cardenas and meets Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.  Through Ruben's experiences the reader enjoys a rich world of events, fascinating characters and  important insights into critical events in Mexico, Europe and the U.S.  It is a whirlwind of adventure, drama and romance that is not to be missed.

About the Author

Roberto de Haro is the pen name for Roberto Haro, a Mexican American Scholar/activist.  He is a retired professor and university executive with career service in California, Maryland and New York universities.  He earned the B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, and later a doctorate.  Haro's publications include five books and 80 plus articles/chapters in scholarly publications.  Under his pen name, he has written three other novels, Twist of Fate, Love Turbulence and the Great War (Vantage Press 2006), Intermezzo of the Longing Hearts (iUniverse 2007), and Jolene's Last Gasp (2007).  He is completing a fifth novel, Camino Doloroso that will be a companion to The Mexican Chubasco. 

   Haro lives in Marin County California, enjoys jogging, biking, kayaking, ballroom dancing, and writing.