diego michel
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The Ghost of Hacienda de Nogueras: Forbidden Love and a Mystery to Solve
Hacienda de Nogueras, now converted into a serene cultural center in the heart of Colima, holds within its adobe walls and colonial arches a secret that transcends time. I first arrived on an October evening, as an art student seeking inspiration for my final project. What I didn't imagine was that, in those hallways where tourist visits and cultural workshops now echoed, I would find the traces of a tragic love that still awaits its redemption.
By diego michelabout 19 hours ago in Fiction
The Dance of the Tastuanes: When the Past Demands a Step
Everything in Suchitlán smelled of the past. The air thick with humidity and damp earth, the sweet, penetrating aroma of pinole and atole floating from kitchens, and above all, the insistent, monotonous sound of the drum. For Luis, seventeen years old with a spotty 4G connection, that beat was the pulse of a town refusing to wake from its dream. It was the prelude to the Dance of the Tastuanes, the big festival, and he was fed up.
By diego michel4 days ago in Art
The Whisper of the Volcano: When the Earth Remembers its Children
There is a silence that precedes knowledge, a void of meaning that dwells in the most familiar places. For Mateo, a young farmer from Comala, Colima, that silence had the shape of the horizon. Every dawn, as he went out to the furrows of his cornfield, his gaze met, immutable and powerful, the silhouette of the Volcano of Fire. It was not a landscape; it was a mute life companion, a sleeping giant whose breath was the wind that rocked the corn cobs. He had seen it roar, spewing orange fumaroles in the distance; he had seen it covered in an improbable white mantle in December. But the volcano, to Mateo, was a geographical fact, a datum of the territory like the river or the hill. Until the silence broke, and the earth began to speak to him.
By diego michel10 days ago in Fiction
Jack the Ripper: Mystery and Terror in the Streets of Whitechapel
In the mid-nineteenth century, the main British boroughs, including the East End of London - where Whitechapel is located - were overpopulated due to the influx of Irish immigrants and the arrival of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Imperial Russia from 1882 onwards.2 This problem led to a decline in employment levels and quality of life, and led to the proliferation of a large underclass characterised by poverty, crime and violence, alcoholism and prostitution. According to London Metropolitan Police estimates, in October 1888 there were 62 brothels and 1200 prostitutes in Whitechapel. Also, demonstrations and protests over the economic situation were common between 1886 and 1890, most notably the Bloody Sunday of 1887.1
By diego michelabout a year ago in Criminal
The Salem Witch Trials: Fear and Hysteria in 17th Century New England.
Colonial belief in witchcraft Legal documents and testimony of the time establish that there were a number of citizens who did not believe in witchcraft, but the majority-both in the New England colonies and in the English colonies of the middle and southern colonies-certainly did. This belief was encouraged by the Bible through stories such as the Witch of Endor (I Samuel 28:3-25) and the line from the Book of Exodus mentioned above. The Bible was understood as the unequivocal word of God and made it clear that witches were as real as anything else; to question the existence of witches meant questioning the divine authority of the Bible.
By diego michel2 years ago in FYI
The Rostov Predator: The True Face of Andrei Chikatilo(part3)
Confession On 29 November, at the request of Burakov and Fetisov, Dr. Bukhanovsky was invited to assist in the questioning of the suspect. Bukhanovsky read extracts from his 65-page psychological profile to Chikatilo. Within two hours, Chikatilo burst into tears and confessed to Bukhanovsky that he was indeed guilty of the crimes for which he had been arrested. After conversing into the evening, Bukhanovsky reported to Burakov and Fetisov that Chikatilo was ready to confess.
By diego michel2 years ago in Criminal
The Rostov Predator: The True Face of Andrei Chikatilo(part2)
Following Biryuk's murder, Chikatilo no longer attempted to resist his homicidal urges: between July and September 1982, he killed a further five victims between the ages of 9 and 18. He established a pattern of approaching children, runaways, and young vagrants at bus or railway stations, enticing them to a nearby forest or other secluded area, and killing them, usually by stabbing, slashing and eviscerating the victim with a knife; although some victims, in addition to receiving a multitude of knife wounds, were also strangled or battered to death.
By diego michel2 years ago in Criminal
The Rostov Predator: The True Face of Andrei Chikatilo(part1)
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, better known as "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Red Ripper" and "the Rostov Ripper", murdered, disemboweled and in some cases raped 56 women and children in the former Soviet Union and was executed at the age of 57 after being tried for 53 of these crimes.
By diego michel2 years ago in Criminal
Woman of Darkness: Amelia Dyer and her Sinister Secrets
The story of Amelia Dyer has gone down in the history of crime as one of the most disturbing: she ran a foster home that she offered as a place of affection for the little ones, but which ended up becoming a scene of horror where she murdered between 300 and 400 children. it all happened in 19th century Victorian England. The little ones were children of single mothers with few resources, who found it difficult to pay for a resource to take care of their babies.
By diego michel2 years ago in Criminal
Beyond Sanity: Tsutomu Miyazaki and His Spiral of Violence. Content Warning.
an infamous Japanese serial killer. Known for his heinous acts, Miyazaki terrorized Japanese society in the late 1980s. Through an exhaustive investigation, we will discover who Tsutomu Miyazaki was and what he did to earn his sad reputation.
By diego michel2 years ago in Criminal
"La Plasa Petatera: Tradition, Culture and Encounter in the Heart of the Community".
Is it really any wonder that the largest handicraft in the world is located in Mexico? And we are talking about a magnificent work registered as a World Heritage Site, which is protected by none other than UNESCO. Find here all the information you need about La Petatera, a unique bullring in the world.
By diego michel2 years ago in History
Minatitlán: Between Aromas of Coffee and Mining Traces, Let's Celebrate the Fair that Defines Our Identity
The Coffee and Mining Fair in Minatitlán, Colima, is an emblematic event that celebrates and highlights the rich coffee and mining tradition of this picturesque town. This annual fair is a special occasion where the community unites to pay homage to two fundamental pillars of its identity: coffee, which represents the agricultural skill and the unequaled flavor of the beans from Colima, and mining, which recalls the courage and hard work of generations dedicated to the extraction of mineral resources.
By diego michel2 years ago in Feast
