For his misogynistic and vulgar statements last Thursday, which he made during the conference morning, to which he was invited to make the announcement of a literary collection that will be published next December by the Economic Culture Fund (FCE), Paco Ignacio Taibo II should have been removed from his position as general director of said publishing house.
This Tuesday starting at 10:00 a.m., at the FCE headquarters, located at Carretera Picacho Ajusco #2777, Fuentes del Pedregal neighborhood, here in Mexico City, the women writers of this country, marginalized from the collection 25 for 25 (which consists of 27 titles, of which only six are by women), they called for a “poetic rally”, whose digital poster proposes to attendees bring a poem folded with the hashtag #Horrible PoemsForTaiboII.
Taibo Mahojo, who has lived off the treasury for decades, selling himself as a (supposedly) leftist intellectual, holds a position in which he should not even be, by law; The general director of the FCE would have to be Mexican by birth. However, thanks to a trick from former President López Obrador, his friend, he gained a position (remember the vulgar “we screwed it up, comrade”?) from which he acts and proceeds like a kinglet.
Therefore, the fact that only six Latin American authors have been included for this controversial collection, of which 2.5 million copies will be printed and given away in 14 Latin American countries, is due to the fact that, for their gunswas not going to include “a horribly disgusting collection of poems that are bad just because it was written by a woman.”
So that’s what you think of female Latin American literary bastions like Rosario Castellanos, Ángeles Mastretta, Ámparo Dávila and so many more… But yes, you took the opportunity to include the rattlesnapper and smooth-talker Fabrizio Mejía in the collection, how about that?
How far is this gray subject from the stature, category and capacity of the founder of the FCE, Daniel Cosío Villegas, who was also the creator of the National School of Economics (today the Faculty of Economics) of the UNAM and of El Colegio de México; in addition to having graduated from Harvard, Cornell and Madison Wisconsin.
The only thing he can boast is that, conveniently, he knew how to fit himself as López Obrador’s rug, but the truth is that he is in the same fold as Fernández Noroña, Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Salgado Macedonio.
As a woman, as a writer and as a journalist, I join and stand in solidarity with my colleagues Mónica Lavín, Brenda Lozano and Malva Flores. It is imperative that, for the umpteenth time, we unite and demonstrate against the machismo and misogyny of officials who, from their positions of privilege, offend us, minimize us and nullify us.
For decades we have fought with total legitimacy to break the call glass ceiling imposed by men who, for the sake of a supposed “intellectual superiority”, insist on imposing an archaic and offensive vision.
Let’s all go to the poetry rally!
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