I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the drea….

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, no….

Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually writt….

Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery beautifully, ….

The Peña Nieto government is not going to investigate itself; there's no true autonomy in the investigative and justice branches of the government in….

There is a culture of corruption in many parts of the Mexican media, of course. It seems that there are fewer and fewer media outlets that permit aut….

The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is so re….

I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight years after ….

Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president….

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of a….

People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or t….

I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize ….

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two af….

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque..

Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human ….

The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suff….

I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a novel that would appear to w….

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory..

If I were the Mexican-American father of a young child who was having trouble sleeping because of Donald Trump, or who was being bullied in school be….

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things….

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writin….