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Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (b. Córdoba, Veracruz, September 23, 1903 – d. Tlalpan, August 13, 1942) was a Mexican chemist, writer and editor.
In 1927, back in Mexico City, he met his later wife Guadalupe Marín, who was married to Diego Rivera at that time. In 1928 he travelled to Europe, where he met Octavio G. Barreda, Carlos Luquín, André Breton, Carlos Pellicer, Samuel Ramos and Agustín Lazo. Back in Mexico, Marín and Cuesta married in November 9, 1928. He was co-founder of the Los Contemporáneos group. Cuesta, who worked for several magazines, founded his own magazine in 1932, named Examen. Poetas Poemas - Jorge Cuesta (Spanish), In 1930 his only son was born, Lucio Antonio Cuesta Marín. In 1933, he divorced from Marín.
Following a fit of madness that included an act of self-castration, Cuesta was hospitalized and would later hang himself using the bedsheets from the sanitarium where he was interred. Jeremy Portland review of In Spite of the Dark Silence by Jorge Volpi at Goodreads He is buried in the Panteón Francés, Mexico City. Jorge Cuesta, www.findagrave.com.
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