‘José Alfredo Jiménez and Agustín Lara Had Drinks There’: This Is Salón Bach, a Bar with a Century of History

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Shots, accompanied by shouts, were heard on the night of April 5 between the street of Madero and Simón Bolívar: a quarrel in the Salón Bach, one of the oldest bars in Mexico City, had claimed the life of one of the most famous troubadores of the moment: Augusto ‘Guty’ Cárdenas. An event that marked the history of Salón Bach, a bar that is considered one of the first speakeasy — secret or clandestine bar— that opened in the country and has a lon…