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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
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Well, Sr Paz, does this mean we should stand on the rr tracks until the last moment as the train approaches, simply to feel alive?
Yes, our first breath must be surrendered someday. But we need not dabble in risky behavior, nor wait until our very last day, simply to feel more alive. St Paul said “I die daily.” (1Cor15:31) ~eric.
Enrique Krause’s review of two new books on the narcos by Ioan Gillo and Anabel Hernández is published in the 27 September issue of The New York Review of Books. I mention it because he does an excellent job of succintly explaining the current spread of the cult of death in its latest form as personified by Santa Muerte from the narco culture out through Mexican society.
I kind of question the “cult of death” nonsense related to Santa Muerte…. a variation on a very old Roman Catholic theme “remember you must die”), and a commonplace of Mexican indigenous religions… being used to “explain” some vague “narco-culture”. As Grillo was smart enough to point out, narcotics growing has been a profitable agricultural pursuit here for well over a century (and I’ve argued the only real difference between marijuana or poppies and other “drugs” like coffee and sugar” is that foreign cartels can’t control the crop production) — a rural issue — and Santa Muerte is an urban phenonomon.
I read a Grillo book last year titled El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency. It was stunning in its journalistic boldness. When I mentioned the author to a Mexican friend, he thought I was kidding, as Grillo’s surname means “cricket” in Spanish.
I see now that Grillo has another book out this month, but with the same title! However it has a different subtitle — El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels. I’ll have to look into it. I understand that he’s a Brit with a Mexican parent, and that he lives in DF.
~eric.