Featured Interview With Beldon Butterfield
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in Argentina, educated in the U.S, and came to Mexico in 1962 with Time/Life International. I have been a regular lecturer to newly arrived foreign residents titled: Mexico – History, Legend and Cross Border Culture. I have published two novels in Mexico, The Crystal Bull and The Line/La Línea (presently being rewritten under the new title The Long Way Home). In 2012 my first nonfiction book, Mexico Behind The Mask was published by Potomac Books in Washington, D.C. and by The Univ. of Nebraska Press. My latest book, in the form of a limited edition, is Pebbles In Time. I have represented The Financial Times and Business Week (not as a foreign correspondent) for over twenty years. From 1975 to 1985 I published a series of magazines along the west coast of Mexico titled About: About Tijuana (including Ensenada, Loreto, and San Felipe). Los Cabos (including La Paz), Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Guadalajara, and Acapulco. In the 1980s, as a representative of Business Week, I published four special sections on “production sharing” along the border. As a representative of the magazine, I was also a member of a Mexican think tank in Mexico City known as The Pinnacle Group. During these years in the late nineties, I had the opportunity to meet and listen to many leading Mexican politicians and businessmen. For a period of fifteen years. I outsourced for Bancomext (Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior) publishing the annual Mexican Directory of Foreign Trade. I live in San Miguel de Allende in the highlands of Central Mexico with my wife Kate and our dog Casey
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing articles for the local newspaper in my town and doing advertorials for Business Week, and my own travel magazines titled About distributed in resorts along the Mexican Pacific coastline including Acapulco, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Tijuana. I have always believed that you read a book and you’re never alone, write a book and you liv.e for eternity
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors are Daniel Siva and Michael Connelly. Detective and espionage novels. I was inspired by Hermann Hess, author of Sidharta.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
A relevant historical family saga told through the eyes of Lt. David Redfield, DFC & Bar. David is a volunteer photo-reconnaissance Spitfire pilot during World War II born and raised in Buenos Aires, known as BA by the British and their descendants. The reader will learn about the British and cultural hegemony in Argentina. David’s war experience takes him to the Dover coastline, then to Tunisia where he becomes a POW of the Italian military. The odyssey continues as he escapes on a submarine bound for the Island of Malta. He is then sent to the British Mandate of Palestine before returning to Great Britain. In London, he is trained by MI6 as the Third Reich implodes and their leaders make plans to create the Fourth Reich in Argentina as they transship bullion and Nazi officers, the likes of Adolph Eichmann, along pre-established ratlines.
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