Biblioteca Iberoamericana (Mexico City)

Library in the former Church of the Incarnation in central Mexico City, near the Preparatory School. In Hayden Herrera’s Frida it is the Cachuchas’ favourite haunt.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Frida	Hayden Herrera	backdrop	The “Ibero”, where Frida and the Cachuchas argue, flirt, write and read.

Frida — Hayden Herrera (1983)

Source: Frida - A Biography of Frida Kahlo · Original · Readwise highlight

Although it was housed in the Old Church of the Incarnation, it was a warm and welcoming place, with a maze of low bookshelves to counter the grandeur of the tall, barrel-vaulted nave

• Role: backdrop
• In the book: A short walk from the school, the Ibero American Library has murals by Roberto Montenegro and the silk flags of the Latin American countries. Two kindly librarians let the Cachuchas treat it almost as their own; each has a corner where they argue, flirt, fight, write papers, draw and read. Kept home in Coyoacán, Frida writes that the town lacks the person “who goes every day to the Ibero American.”
• Why it matters: A minor place, but it shows the bookish side of the Cachuchas’ rebellion and the life Frida misses when she is kept at home.