I made a very personal discovery as we visited the Governor's Palace in Merida. I remember how moved I was to see the murals of Diego Rivera for the very first time in San Francisco, and many years later the murals of Orozco in Guadalajara.
I had the same feeling when we toured the Palace where the upper floor is blessed with mural after mural of a Mexican artist named Castro Pacheco. They're big paintings, some as large as 12 by 20 feet.
Between 1970 and l986, Pacheco painted 25 murals in oil on the Palace walls and they
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