In 1948 both of her parents died in an accident, leaving her orphaned at 23 years of age. At fifteen, Castellanos and her parents moved to Mexico City. The family's fortunes changed suddenly when President Lázaro Cárdenas enacted a land reform and peasant emancipation policy that stripped the family of much of its land holdings. According to her own account, she felt estranged from her family after a soothsayer predicted that one of her mother's two children would die shortly, and her mother screamed out, "Not the boy!" She was an introverted young girl, who took notice of the plight of the indigenous Maya who worked for her family. Born in Mexico City, she was raised in Comitán near her family's ranch in the southern state of Chiapas.
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