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10 julio 2014

Latin America’s Talent for Tolerance

Before every World Cup match in Brazil, the players lined up in front of a banner that read, “Say No to Racism.”
17 junio 2014

Meditations on the Beautiful Game

Every four years, the world offers us a respite from our personal and national problems, a month of immersion in the fantasy of vicarious, ritual confrontation known as the World Cup.
29 mayo 2014

García Márquez’s Blind Spot

The recent funeral in Mexico for Latin America’s great novelist, Gabriel García Márquez, was an astonishing display.
21 abril 2014

The April Invasion of Veracruz

The invasion had various objectives. To help remove a dictator who had seized power in a coup d’état, to channel and direct the radical groups that opposed him, to safeguard the interests of the oil companies active in the area, to forestall interference from other national powers, and to teach the citizens of an unfortunate country about the virtues of democracy. Baghdad in 2003? No. The Mexican port of Veracruz, on April 21, 1914.
31 marzo 2014

The Wars of Octavio Paz

On Monday, Mexico celebrates the centennial of the birth of Octavio Paz. There have been public readings of his poetry and an international conference to discuss the ideas that stirred his imagination throughout his long life.
11 marzo 2014

The End of the Latin-American Dictatorship is Nigh

Venezuela is not my country. I have no blood ties to it; I only began traveling there less than a decade ago. Yet, I have found myself emotionally entangled in its freedom struggle.
28 febrero 2014

Venezuela’s Angry Students

Many of the young students protesting in the streets of Venezuela have no memory of any government other than that of President Hugo Chávez.
03 febrero 2014

Mexico’s Vigilantes on the March

In the past, Mexico’s revolutions and internal wars have all been eruptions stemming from deep social problems. They unleashed enormous destructive power and took decades to run their course.
23 enero 2014

Mexico: How Much Has Changed

There are those would say that present-day Mexico is an example of the famous phrase of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (about Sicily of the Risorgimento) that everything has changed so that everything may go on just as it was.

Línea de tiempo

Conoce la obra e ideas de Enrique Krauze en su tiempo.