Gto event to help the families of the 43 normalistas

[raquelita]

I arrived after 8 but except that there was no longer ponche, the event was still on. At least fifty students were still sitting on the steps listening to poetry by the socially committed Mario Benedetti of Uruguay, Pablo Neruda of Chile, a Mexican woman whose name slid past me, all read with dramatic fervor by shoeless actors backed by violin music. Watch for similar events that show a side of student life you might not otherwise know and a reminder that poetry rules in Mexico, at least in the mind and the heart.