Charras is the true story of Efraín "El Charras" Calderón Lara, a twenty-six-year-old union leader and student activist, and the Yucatean government's successful plot to kidnap and murder him. Acclaimed Mexican novelist Hernán Lara Zavala combines real-life newspaper articles and interviews with renderings of key events, laying the state-sanctioned narrative of Charras's death beside the actual experiences of those involved. To kaleidoscopic effect, Zavala enters not only the mind of the hero but also those in his orbit: the governor of the Yucatán, Charras's bureaucrat brother-in-law, even the mercenary hired to carry out the kidnapping—the chilling "you" whose point-of-view the reader must inhabit to unravel what took place during that fateful spring of 1974. This is the first time that Charras has been translated into another language. 

Translator Bio: Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in Hialeah, Florida and graduated from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Passages North, New Orleans Review, Pleiades Magazine, Catapult, Massachusetts Review and other publications. He was a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog from 2018-2023 and was the Poetry Editor at Peauxdunque Review. Romaguera was an Editorial Intern at Electric Literature. He is a VONA alum and was a 2023 Periplus Fellow.

Daniel S.C. Sutter Bio: A current Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Daniel S.C. Sutter holds a Ph.D. from Florida State and an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, Carolina Quarterly, BOOTH, Fugue, and elsewhere and has won The Robert Watson Literary Prize for Fiction. His collection, Debris, is forthcoming May of 2026 as the winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. He is from Tampa, FL