José Emilio Pacheco

Contra las apariencias

David Grossman - Israel

“The country’s borders have shifted so many times with each war that it’s like living all your life in a house with moving walls. Only by living in peace with our neighbors, the Palestinians, can Israel feel like home, without us feeling like occupiers, without feeling like foreigners.”

“Palestinians have the natural right to a state and a society, to a homeland, and I wish they could have a normal life without the burden of occupation. I cannot tolerate the thought that Israel intervenes in their lives, and it casts a shadow,” said Grossman, criticizing the Israeli government’s “on-going failure” to enter into negotiations with the Palestinians.

“Peace for Israel is essential to its future survival. Right now we do not have confidence in a future.”

Una modesta propuesta educativa

Una modesta propuesta educativa

NAFTA Is Starving Mexico

Inequality plays a role in the erosion of healthy diets for all. Fatness no longer represents abundance.

The dramatic change in Mexican eating habits since NAFTA is not only reflected in the millions who go to bed hungry. On the other side of the scale, Mexico has in just a decade and a half become second only to the United States worldwide in morbid obesity. Child obesity, overweight, and diabetes now constitute major health problems, alongside the more traditional problem of hunger.

Mexico - Food and Free Trade Agreement

From the farm to the kitchen table

Tzevetan Todorov

The Morals of History

Tzvetan Todorov

Tzevetan Todorov

Todorov's greatest contribution to literary theory was his defining of the fantastic, the fantastic uncanny, and the fantastic marvelous. Todorov defines the fantastic as being any event that happens in our world that seems to be supernatural. Upon the occurrence of the event, we must decide if the event was an illusion or whether it is real and has actually taken place. Todorov uses Alvaro from Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureuxas an example of a fantastic event. Alvaro must decide whether the woman he is in love with is truly a woman or if she is the devil.