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Homero Aridjis is a poet, novelist, journalist, and environmental activist. He was previously Mexican ambassador to the Netherlands, Switzerland, and UNESCO.
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JUN 5, 2018 • Transcript
"Samuel Huntington ignored Latin America as part of the West," says Homero Aridjis
For Homero Aridjis, a distinguished Mexican poet, author, activist, and diplomat, "the West" means countries that follow Greco-Latin culture--not Anglo-Saxon culture, he says pointedly. So ...