Mauro Cardenas - The Revolutionaries Try Again

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Mauro Javier Cardenasgrew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in economics from Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, ZYZZYVA, Witness, BOMB, and the Antioch Review.