Author Description

The story of a pepe, is based on a fact that gave a lot to talk about in the new city of Guatemala at the end of the 18th century. The most outstanding event that this novel narrates happened in Guatemala in the year 1794, when, under the cover of night, a small wicker basket was left on the threshold of the street of the Gálvez family. a newborn baby. Everything pointed in those days of gossip and gossip, that it had been the grieving mother who had abandoned her little child. The house where that little infant was left was that of the Goyena and Gálvez couple, Army Colonel Manuel Fadrique y Goyena and his wife, Gertrudis Gálvez, a very loved and respected couple at the time, who immediately adopted the child. It was never known who the parents of that "pepe" were, who received the baptismal waters with the name of José Mariano Felipe Goyena y Gálvez, who grew up surrounded by the love and privileges of his new parents. Over time, this boy turned out to be one of the great men of the time, and history marks him as a true patriot. A statesman, a clever politician with definite ideas. Of great energies and ideals in favor of Guatemala