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Masters of Suspicion – The New Inquiry

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A review of Bruno Bosteel’s Marx and Freud in Latin America

Army occupying the Zocalo in Mexico City via A review of Bruno Bosteel’s Marx and Freud in Latin America In Latin America there is an old saying, sometimes attributed to an editor of La Jornada , a left-wing newspaper in my hometown of Mexico City: La verdad es siempre sospechosa . Literally, the saying translates as “truth is always suspicious,” but “the truth is always a suspect” is an equally valid reading. But neither of these fully captures the rich suggestiveness of the phrase. The line is an injunction to mistrust all accepted truths. Paradoxically, though, this counsel of suspicion is

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