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In Praise of the Terrorist | Issue 43 | n+1 | Nicolás Medina Mora

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He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This is perhaps why so much of Yépez’s critique of the Mexico City literary establishment focuses on money: who gets it, who doesn’t, and who decides who belongs in each category.

Hace veinte años yo era un obrero de la maquila en Tijuana y planeaba poner bombas en esas fábricas y en el edificio del PRI frente al muro que puso Estados Unidos. — Heriberto Yépez Poet in two languages, first-rate essayist, second-tier novelist, translator, editor, anthologist, video artist, canceled newspaper columnist, Twitter troll, keeper of prolific and ephemeral blogs, art critic in equal parts brutal and thoughtful, working-class philosopher, theorist of empire, loving cartographer of Tijuana, scholar of Nahuatl lexicography and the Maya calendar, licensed Gestalt therapist,…

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