To Read And Write Is A Paradise.

Most Writers In Mexico Have Had Posts As Ambassadors, Secretaries - That Is No Longer The Case. Now A Writer Can Live Off Writing. He Has An Audience: There Are Publishing Houses, There Are Newspapers - So The Situation Is Not As Terrible As It Used To Be When There Were No Means And He Had To Go Into Government Service, Be An Ambassador Or A Cabinet Minister, Etc. So, Things Are Changing In The Sense That The Civil Society Is Now The Protagonist. The Writer Therefore Occupies A Different Position, But No Less Influential Than In The Past, In A New, Democratic Society.

I Am A Mexican. The United States Lived Seventy-five Years With The One Party System In Mexico - The Pri - Without Batting An Eyelid, Never Demanding Democracy Of Mexico. Democracy Came Because Mexicans Fought For Democracy And Made A Democracy Out Of Our History, Our Possibilities, Our Perspectives. Democracy Is Not Something That Can Be Exported Like Coca-cola. It Has To Be Bred From The Inside, According To The Culture, The Conditions Of Each Country.

Children Know How To Be Cruel, And The Cruelty Of Their Elders Is The Surest Residue Of The Malaise The Young Feel Toward Things Strange, Things Other, Things That Reveal Our Own Ignorance Or Insufficiency

Art Gives Life To What History Killed. Art Gives Voice To What History Denied, Silenced, Or Persecuted. Art Brings Truth To The Lies Of History.

Reading, Writing, Teaching, Learning, Are All Activities Aimed At Introducing Civilizations To Each Other.