Claudio Lomnitz, anthropologist: “There has not been a government in these years that has confronted forced disappearance in Mexico in a decisive way”

Claudio Lomnitz, anthropologist: “There has not been a government in these years that has confronted forced disappearance in Mexico in a decisive way”

The historian also pointed out, in conversation with La Tercera, that “disappearance in Mexico is linked to the use of extrajudicial violence to create branches of economic activity.” “To address this, the government would have to start by making an inventory of the violent economy, and not just be playing with statistics and laws,” he said.

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Malucha Pinto about her son Tomás: “I never wanted him to be someone he is not”

Malucha Pinto about her son Tomás: “I never wanted him to be someone he is not”

Thirty years ago, Malucha Pinto wrote Letters for Tomás without imagining all that this book would come to mean. Today, on the occasion of a new edition, she rereads that story and discovers that, besides talking about motherhood and disability, it also talks about a love that never tries to change the other. In this interview, she reflects on that discovery, the care, and the bond with Tomás, the son who taught her to see difference in another way.

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