Editing Under the Volcano (section)

===Secondary characters===
*'''Dr. Arturo Díaz Vigil''', a local physician, friend of the Consul and Laruelle.
*'''Sr. Bustamente''', owner of the local cinema.
*'''Señora Gregorio''', owner of the ''Terminal Cantina El Bosque'', a bar in Quauhnahuac.
*'''The Taskersons''', the Consul's adoptive family; the patriarch, a poet named Abraham Taskerson, took Geoffrey in as a fifteen-year-old brooding poet. The entire family, including the mother and at least six sons, drinks hard and takes long walks in the countryside around their home, across the [[River Mersey]] and with a view of the Welsh mountains.
*'''Juan Cerillo''', a Mexican national who was in Spain with Hugh and is now an agent for a cooperative holding made possible by the nationalisations of president [[Lázaro Cárdenas]]: he transports money between rural cooperatives and farmers and the national Credit Bank (much like the murdered Indian in Chapter VII).<ref>Middlebro par. 7.</ref> Cerillo is modelled on a real-life friend of Lowry's, Juan Fernando Márquez, whom he befriended during his 1936–1938 stay in Mexico and who also appears in ''Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid''.<ref>McCarthy 328 n.9.</ref>