Historian Charts San Miguel's Rise from Small Colonial Town to US Retirement Mecca Ricardo Castillo - The News
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Nightline ABC News in San Miguel de Allende - See the opinions of people that are living already in Mexico. (GlobeReps)

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE – Lisa Covert’s history of San Miguel de Allende impresses everyone in town. Covert, an assistant history professor at the College of Charleston, S.C., has put together in two brief essays the story on how San Miguel de Allende went from being a ghost town in 1930 to the bustling tourist attraction it is today. She also compares Mexico’s independence heroes, Hidalgo and Allende, in a well-documented study of their roles in the 1810 rebellion that eventually led to Mexico’s independence from Spain.

Last Wednesday she lectured in Spanish to some 50 attendees at El Sindicato hall, receiving a warm reception from a bilingual audience. Professor Covert is the author of what could be considered a work in progress. Yet for those seeking to find out how 15,000 gringos came to retire in a town in Mexico, her sequencing of events weaves together a coherent story on how a “pseudo-colonial” place like San Miguel de Allende has become a favorite haven for some 15,000 foreign expats — an impressive 10 percent of the total population.

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