Elena Poniatowska: ‘As a Mexican, I Am Ashamed’

*The author of “Noche de Tatelolco” says that the murder of 48 students in Guerrero, Mexico is worse than the 1968 killings in Mexico City. ” … the country should also be ashamed by this tragedy. How can we face the world after this?” she said. VL

By Sergio Muñoz Bata, Huffington Post

The mood in Mexico is so depressing that even Elena Poniatowska, the novelist-journalist who chronicled the 1968 massacre of students in Tlatelolco, feels a chill when she talks about the murder of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, who were found burned to death in a municipal trash dump.

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At 82, Poniatowska keeps on exposing social injustice in Mexico in memorable books like Here’s to You, Jesusa, Nothing No One: The Voices of the Earthquake and thousands of journalistic articles in newspapers and magazines all over the world. This year, she won the prestigious Premio Cervantes, the equivalent of the Nobel for Spanish language writers. I spoke to her about the situation in Mexico.

 

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