Claudio Lomnitz

Jan 1, 2025 | nybooks.com | Claudio Lomnitz

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owes its extraordinary collection of Mexican prints to a single collector: the French (but also Mexican, but also American) artist and critic Jean Charlot. Born in Paris in 1898, Charlot arrived in Mexico as an up-and-coming painter in 1921.

Aug 31, 2024 | nybooks.com | Max Nelson |Claudio Lomnitz

In our September 19, 2024, issue, Claudio Lomnitz reviews Marcela Turati’s San Fernando, Last Stop, “arguably the most thorough and absorbing piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexico’s brutal political economy.” In the spring of 2011 Turati traveled to the northeastern city of San Fernando—where eight months earlier, Lomnitz writes, “the Zetas cartel had wantonly murdered seventy-two Central American migrants”—after authorities discovered almost two hundred corpses from...

Aug 29, 2024 | nybooks.com | Claudio Lomnitz

In April 2011 Mexican soldiers discovered mass graves in San Fernando, a city of some 30,000 people in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. One hundred and ninety-three corpses were exhumed and moved to the border city of Matamoros. Soon the local morgue was swamped with people trying to discover whether their disappeared family members were among the bodies. To cover the story, the news magazine Proceso sent a journalist named Marcela Turati.

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Claudio Lomnitz

The project that Táíwò envisions—dethroning fossil capital—raises hard questions about the current state of the state. It may be that in the United States, “state politics is the likeliest path forward for successful contention with fossil capital.” But what about state structures that look far too weak for purposeful collective action?

Feb 5, 2024 | cronica.com.mx | Claudio Lomnitz

Claudio Lomnitz continuará su exploración sobre las desapariciones en Zacatecas el martes 6 y miércoles 7 de febrero, en el Aula Mayor de El Colegio Nacional. En relación con este ciclo de conferencias, compartimos con los lectores de Crónica su obra más reciente, "Para una teología política del crimen organizado (E Colegio Nacional-Era, 2023).