Secondary charactersDr. Arturo Díaz Vigil, a local physician, friend of the Consul and Laruelle.Sr. Bustamente, owner of the local cinema.Señora Gregorio, owner of the Terminal Cantina El Bosque, a bar in Quauhnahuac.The Taskersons, the Consul's adoptive family; the patriarch, a poet named Abraham Taskerson, took Geoffrey in as a fifteen-year-old brooding poet. The entire family, including the mother and at least six sons, drinks hard and takes long walks in the countryside around their home, across the River Mersey and with a view of the Welsh mountains.Juan Cerillo''', a Mexican national who was in Spain with Hugh and is now an agent for a cooperative holding made possible by the nationalisations of president Lázaro Cárdenas: he transports money between rural cooperatives and farmers and the national Credit Bank (much like the murdered Indian in Chapter VII).Middlebro par. 7. Cerillo is modelled on a real-life friend of Lowry's, Juan Fernando Márquez, whom he befriended during his 1936–1938 stay in Mexico and who also appears in Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid.McCarthy 328 n.9.
Secondary charactersDr. Arturo Díaz Vigil, a local physician, friend of the Consul and Laruelle.Sr. Bustamente, owner of the local cinema.Señora Gregorio, owner of the Terminal Cantina El Bosque, a bar in Quauhnahuac.The Taskersons, the Consul's adoptive family; the patriarch, a poet named Abraham Taskerson, took Geoffrey in as a fifteen-year-old brooding poet. The entire family, including the mother and at least six sons, drinks hard and takes long w,alks in the countryside around their home, across the River Mersey and with a view of the Welsh mountains.Juan Cerillo''' a Mexican national who was in Spain with Hugh and is now an agent for a cooperative holding made possible by the nationalisations of president Lázaro Cárdenas: he transports money between rural cooperatives and farmers and the national Credit Bank (much like the murdered Indian in Chapter VII).Middlebro par. 7. Cerillo is modelled on a real-life friend of Lowry's, Juan Fernando Márquez, whom he befriended during his 1936–1938 stay in Mexico and who also appears in Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid.McCarthy 328 n.9.