Distinction to Ricardo Raphael

Today, the General Society of Writers of Mexico presents the Sogem Caridad Bravo Adams Award to colleagues who have distinguished themselves through their literary output. On that list of distinguished writers is, in good time, Ricardo Raphael , author of Fabricación (Ed. Seix Barral, 2025), a brave, shocking and very well documented fictional chronicle about the thousand and one outrages of Isabel Miranda de Wallace , who starting in 2005, with money and influence, carried out a broad campaign to have the alleged kidnappers and murderers of her son punished, which led to many men and women being subjected to endless torture by the torturers of the Attorney General's Office, in the presence and with the participation of the lady herself, so that any person she pointed out as guilty, suspect, relative or friend of those supposedly responsible would confess to the most horrendous crimes under threat of death or harm to the families of these victims of arrogance, several of whom remain in prison, while others left the country and those who stayed live terrified by the experience lived and the understandable fear of being victims again. torture or seeing his family harmed.

The corpse was still alive

But the truth is that Hugo Alberto Wallace , the son of Isabel Miranda de Wallace , was not kidnapped, much less murdered, at least not for more than a year after the alleged kidnapping, supposedly in 2005, because he communicated with various people and even allowed himself to be seen, always surrounded by his gunmen. The cause of his "disappearance" was an unpaid debt to the drug trafficker El Mencho . All this dirty behavior was endorsed by the highest authorities in the country, starting with the then President of the Republic, Felipe Calderón , who even honored her with the National Human Rights Award in 2010, when Raúl Plascencia Villanueva was president of the CNDH, and supported granting this distinction to the defamer, accomplice to torture, and destroyer of lives, whom Calderón himself made the PAN candidate for Governor of Mexico City in 2012, an election in which she fortunately lost. The wicked woman died on March 8th.

Andrés González Pagés died

In Mérida, Yucatán, the writer Andrés González Pagés , born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, in 1940, died. He studied biology at the Polytechnic, political science at the UNAM, and art history at the National Museum of Rome. He belonged to the Literary Cafés of Youth (1964) and co-directed the magazine Volantín (1964). He belonged to the workshop of Juan José Arreola and was editor of Mester . He was in charge of the literature section of the Department of Cultural Diffusion of the IPN (1967-75), director of Publications (1971-75) and deputy director of Culture and Personnel Affairs of the SIC (1975), among other positions in the public sector; scriptwriter for Channel 13 television (1983), Editorial Director of the government of Tabasco (1984-88) and head of the Publications Department of the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of the UNAM (1989). He coordinated literary workshops. One of his books, A Wet and Green Cave , received the National Short Story Award. He was a fellow at the Mexican Writers Center (1969-70), a professor at the Sogem Writers School, and co-founder of the Tabasco Writers Society (1987).

Breviary…

On the 125th anniversary of the birth of Antonieta Rivas Mercado (CDMX 1900-Paris 1931), the Casa Rivas Mercado (Héroes 45, Guerrero) inaugurated a comprehensive exhibition of this extraordinary woman. @@@ Eugenio Anguiano Roch , distinguished economist, decent PRI member, and ambassador to Costa Rica, Vietnam, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, and twice to China, has died. A kind but firm man, he was a worthy representative of Mexico.