Mexico marks Octavio Paz anniversary From: latimesblogs.latimes.com
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his week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet, writer and diplomat.
Getprev2It would be difficult to overstate Paz’s impact on Mexican culture, politics and thought in the second half of the 20th century. His landmark work, “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” a lyrical, book-length reflection on Mexican identity, remains a classic. His resignation of his ambassadorship to India, to protest the Tlatelolco massacre of Mexican protesters by government troops before the start of the 1968 Olympics, and his subsequent public denunciations of the government, helped to open a crack in the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s power monopoly, which eventually would lead to a more democratic, pluralistic Mexico.”*
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