Geneve Mexico City Hotel’s The Angel's Woman in Geneve in Mexico City

The Angel's Woman in Geneve

At the height of the Porfiriato, during the 1900s…
On April 28, Antonieta Rivas Mercado was born daughter of the Mexican architect Antonio Rivas Mercado who was in charge of the monument to Independence (which is currently known as El Ángel).
Antonieta Rivas Mercado. Woman writer, patron, cultural promoter and defender of women's rights, who exceptionally potentiated cultural life in Mexico and who, unfortunately, under the collective memory, little is recognized for her great work.
During 1920, culture was already beginning to spread in Mexico, and it is there that Antonieta created, forged, and promoted the patronage for the Mexico Symphony Orchestra and even became the first woman to write and translate for the Ulises magazines, also creating the first experimental theater in Mexico, specifically in León Guanajuato to give an authentic milestone to art as a protest.
Muse and creator, Antonieta Rivas became an invaluable support in the candidacy of José Vasconcelos for the presidency, being an elemental pillar in that period and occupying an important part of his inheritance for what would soon be his future downfall since after the Vasconcelos stage The defeat of said movement forced everyone, including Antonieta, to emigrate to other countries.
By coincidence and at the same time as the year 1923, a couple from Havana settled in Mexico with a couple of children, staying in one of the most recognized and scarce hotels that allowed lodging for long periods of time at that time, The Geneve Hotel.
Kathryn, one of the two little ones in said Cuban family, meets and marries Donald Blair, the only son of Antonieta Rivas, becoming her daughter-in-law and spokesperson for her tragic, lightning-filled, and overwhelming life in a biographical book that she decides to write for her mother-in-law. …
A hotel that keeps history and entire lives, The Hotel Geneve has become the spectator of anecdotes and family trees essential for our present, turning certain corners into literary spaces even embodied in biographical works of characters who coincidentally also met in our great hall.
Kathryn turns Geneve into the setting of her book, being just another coincidence the same space in which Antonieta Rivas Mercado decided to spend many years before, her first night on her honeymoon with her husband.