Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (b. Córdoba, Veracruz

Córdoba, Veracruz

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, September 23, 1903 – d. Tlalpan

Tlalpan

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, August 13, 1942) was a Mexican

Mexico

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 chemist, writer and editor.

Biography

Cuesta visited school in his hometown, before he did his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) until 1925. In 1924 he published his first short story in a magazine. When he finished his studies, he oved back to Córdoba for a short time. In 1927, back in Mexico City

Mexico City

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, he met his later wife Guadalupe Marín

Guadalupe Marín

Guadalupe Marín , born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a model and novelist born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico. At eight years of age Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. In 1922 she became the second wife of muralist Diego Rivera. Marín was the mother of Rivera's two youngest...

, who was married to Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...

 at that time. In 1928 he travelled to Europe, where he met Octavio G. Barreda, Carlos Luquín, André Breton

André Breton

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, Carlos Pellicer

Carlos Pellicer

Carlos Pellicer Cámara , born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was heavily active in the promotion of Mexican art and literature...

, Samuel Ramos

Samuel Ramos

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 and Agustín Lazo. Back in Mexico, he married Guadalupe Marín in 1930, and was co-founder of the Los Contemporáneos

Los Contemporáneos

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 group. Cuesta, who worked for several magazines, founded his own magazine in 1932, named Examen. Cuesta received hospital treatment for mental-health problems, where he finally suicided. He is buried in the Panteon Civil de Dólores, Mexico City.

Selected works / publications

• Canto a un Dios Mineral
• A Pesar del Oscuro Silencio
• La Calle del Amor
• Poeta, Funde tu Campana
• El plan contra Calles, 1934
• Poesía de Jorge Cuesta, 1942
• Crítica de la reforma del Artículo Tercero, (1943

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