Macarena Hernández: Goodbye, uelito, my last tie to Mexico
They called my grandfather el rey sin corona, the king without a crown.
Around the humble but sprawling Mexican ranchos where he was born, uelito Jose MarÃa Reyna spent a lifetime fueling legends.
For nearly 40 years, my mother’s father was a volunteer police officer, patrolling four ranching communities of the municipality of Doctor Coss in the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
He loved his pistolas and women, which may explain why some revered him and others loathed him.
They even wrote corridos, ballads, about him.
Born and raised in La Ceja, a ranching community about 37 miles south of the Rio Grande, my grandfather was our family’s first straddler, shuffling between Mexico and the United States since he was 8.
For me, my abuelito was home, a living symbol of the Old World that slowly began slipping away in the late 1970s, when the California and Texas grape and cotton fields offered more stability than the bean and corn fields of my mother’s childhood home.
Uelito Jose MarÃa always said he would never leave the ranchos, even after almost everyone else was gone. He was our family’s anchor, our roots.
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