>Are you fucking kidding me? Does this guy understand that a narco fueled civil war is currently being waged throughout Mexico with nearly 60K deaths in the last 5 years
The author, David Toscana, is a Mexican novelist living in Monterrey. So yeah, I think he probably has some inkling of that. It's hardly surprising that a novelist would be concerned about the lack of interest in literature in his home country and that he might attribute rather more importance to that than is strictly speaking justifiable.
Also, this is an op-ed, it's not an article and it doesn't represent either the opinion of the newspaper or the facts as reported by their journalists.
The author, David Toscana, is a Mexican novelist living in Monterrey. So yeah, I think he probably has some inkling of that. It's hardly surprising that a novelist would be concerned about the lack of interest in literature in his home country and that he might attribute rather more importance to that than is strictly speaking justifiable.
Also, this is an op-ed, it's not an article and it doesn't represent either the opinion of the newspaper or the facts as reported by their journalists.