01/04/2024
Research has shown that the first Lebanese immigrant who arrived to Mexico was R.P. Boutros Raffoul in 1878. Three years later Joseph M. Abad arrived, and in 1882, Santiago Saouma Adued settled in Mérida.
Emigration is an existential metamorphosis in which the individual throws over-board the possibility of living in the land of his or her forebears, of enjoying the warmth of parents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters. It is saying good-bye to dear friends to meet again, in the best of cases, only when their faces are disguised by the passing years and their hair whitened by the snows of time.
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