lesson 64 Diego Rivera2
The Day of Frida and Diego's Marriage- August 21, 1929 1. Frida was petite, barely twenty-two years old when she joined her life with Diego, a huge, fat man of forty-three years old, divorced, and a communist. 2. The party took place in a house in Coyoacan owned by a great friend of the couple: Tina Modotti. 3. To everyone's surprise, the main dish of the banquet: black mole from Oaxaca was prepared by Lupe Marin who was Diego's ex-wife, the same one who had starred in several scandals due to her jealousy. 4. In addition to the black mole, there were a series of Mexican dishes to delight the guests' palates:stuffed chiles, pozole, rice, capirotada and wedding cake, to drink: pulque and tequila. 5. The bride's mother was heartbroken, she had done everything possible to avoid that wedding, she who had put so much effort into her daughter's education. 6. Frida's mother could not understand how a Catholic girl could marry a man who was an atheist and a c...