April 12, 2002

The Scholar as P.I.

By MARION LLOYD

A historian takes on the case of Moctezuma's heirs

Alejandro González Acosta, a Cuban-born historian living in Mexico, has put more than physical distance between himself and his Communist birthplace. His research into the labyrinthine world of Spanish colonial history has taken him on a journey back hundreds of years and far from what he describes as the colorless reality of the island he left behind in 1987.

But his most controversial scholarly pursuit -- academic

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