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pair together in their complex symbiosis throughout the twentieth century and particularly over the last 70 years. Like a quarrelsome old married couple who after years of living together can no longer find reasons to separate, intellectuals and the powerful in Mexico remain joined by habit and custom. And also by their troubling ignorance of each other. Although we would have to go back to viceregal times to find the origins of this relationship, it could be argued that the relation between intellectuals and power began to assume its contemporary character during the late nineteenth-century dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. The powerful have always held a certain fear and reverence for those strange figures who watch what they are doing, judge them, criticize them or, in the happiest of cases, justify them. However irrationally, the powerful seek out the opinions of intellectuals, convinced that the latter are the possessors of dangerous |
