There Is No Creation Without Tradition. No

What's Happened At The Abu Ghraib Prison In Iraq Is One Of The Grossest Violations Of Human Rights Under The Geneva Conventions That We Have Record Of. It Is Simply Monstrous.

Writing Is A Struggle Against Silence.

Like All Of Latin America, Mexico After Independence In 1821 Turned Its Back On A Triple Heritage: On The Spanish Heritage, Because We Were Newly Liberated Colonies, And On Our Indian And Black Heritages, Because We Considered Them Backward And Barbaric. We Looked Towards France, England And The U.s., To Become Progressive Democratic Republics.

Mexico Is A Very Complex, Mysterious Country. I Will Never Understand It Fully, And That's Why I Write So Much About It, In Order To Try To Understand It.

The Mexicans Descend From The Aztecs; The Peruvians Descend From The Incas; The Argentineans Descend From The Boats.