Live to the rhythm of my country and I can not stay 
aside, I want to be, want to be part I witnessed,
walking side by side with him, I hear
increasingly
cradle it, take it as die medal on my chest
Elena Poniatowska
His political ideas are beyond any party or ideological banner, any color, its maximum is the struggle for equality.
The responsibility to "not know how to say no"
On Sunday April 3, 2005, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who barely knew the newspapers so, came home for the writer to ask to collaborate with him in the fight against lawlessness, a crude maneuver to prevent contest the 2006 elections, says Poniatowska.
"His rare visits were made to people who in life had been touched on my door and demanded:" Tell him to give a home to my son, Have him look at my husband's careless.
The journalist admits that because he supported AMLO and asked him: "I have a defect, an illness, I can hardly work, I can not say no, always afraid to offend anyone if I say no. White
attacks and threats
Poniatowska The thousand faces of us to follow in his footsteps and his foray into politics left that made it the target of some who say and believe that their image is collapsing, but others think it does not lose its place as a renowned writer in the country.
During the months before the 2006 presidential election, in advertisements supported the candidate of the Coalition for the Good of All, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
recorded radio spots that were broadcast on radio and television which are pure lies warns that Lopez Obrador has a relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the second floor on fast roads of no slander, play fair, was the message of Poniatowska.
The party National Action responded to these spots with another that played that message from the writer. But while listening to him talk about pensions and second floors, were the familiar scenes of René Bejarano and Gustavo Ponce, former private secretary and former treasurer of the Lopez Obrador, respectively, "raking in the dollars" and playing on the Vegas. Who are they kidding asked a voice that emphasized: López Obrador is a danger to Mexico.
This latest decision to support the then candidate for President of the Republic of the Coalition for the Good of All, AMLO, generated controversy over her figure and the victim did threats and verbal attacks. Ensures
not fear for their safety when was the target of such attacks because they never beat him. "No one grabbed me slapping, but it gave me grief all the insults, because they were at night, at two or three o'clock.
"You wake up with fear, I never disconnect my phone because I have three children and I always think I may need. They called me and told me: Writer VENMAN to put a dedication on my cock, fucking old whore going to go for you, we'll kill you bitch. After hearing all that and more, I found myself struggling to sleep again. " Elenita
But it has always been a woman strong enough to remember the thousands of times threatened by phone after his book The Night of Tlatelolco, and not only that, but was guarded by officers who were stationed day and night outside his home to see who entered and out. And she
naivety that characterizes him, went out and brought them coffee.
But the dirty war waged by the National Action Party, which through its leader, Manuel Espino, made a statement that provoked more outrage in a long list of intellectuals.
Literally taken from the newspaper La Jornada, April 11, 2006 "That poor lady, I'm sorry, it insisted its prestige in a cause not worth it. " Also presumed to be directly responsible for this campaign and when the journalist Claudia Herrera Beltrán, the newspaper said, asked to Espino alerting you that there were many intellectuals who qualified for the spot of the NPA atrocity against Elena and was an example of how National Action despises the intelligence of this country, obviously went on a tangent, giving stupid answer: I do not know what kind of intellectuals are!
Elena Poniatowska, who was in Mérida enjoying an Easter break said the day after Manuel Espino, president of the PAN, "It a poor servant of power, and what he has done throughout his life is CRAWLER the powerful. It is more a pauper to him than to me, "it said the PAN leader has no moral quality, adding that" support a candidate is always a compromise and you play it. "
same day, the intellectual response was immediate. Meanwhile
journalist Raúl Cárdenas Durán think the literate has every right to participate in politics. "She was always left is not right that has been rejected. Then of course leading to a current government sympathetic to their ideology.
"In hereby cannibalism is very fierce, more than enough poke someone's head to have it devoured. Elenita is within their rights to write, do and say whatever he wants, but there are people who do not like and are now embedded in power, it hurts to see a picture of the magnitude of Elena Poniatowska is the other side, of course must come attacks, censorship and even aggression against them. She knows what it does, it is a thinking person, intelligent, with knowledge and many contacts.
"She does not need to transcend, his age and has gone beyond good and evil, has left a written record of his interviews, has left his books, a history, a personality, has dabbled in journalism, literature, radio, television, Elenita already reached the limits that must reach every human being ... More ... Transcending "where?" Recapitulates Cárdenas Durán.
Meanwhile the editor of the Federal District section of the newspaper El Universal, Martha Ramos said: "Elena Poniatowska should not write articles about politics, for having spoken in favor of the Left Party, because they lose their impartiality in journalism, and also its image has fallen on hard times. "
princess left An
Thanks to his ancestry and due to their own leftist leanings, his acquaintances Europeans named it La Princesse Rouge (Red Princess).
Installed in that tone color, Elenita believes that the most favored of Mexico Felipe Calderón are with and she will always be with the poor. "I've dealt with the causes that move me because I greatly enrich. Do not say I enjoy watching people suffer!, But I moved the effort they make to get ahead. " He points out that living
rare times with three presidents, one that already came out, but continues to believe, the other who does not speak and stand still and a third, which was not recognized by the Electoral Tribunal and that is what makes proposals.
Within this context, it was forced to ask the reporter how risky to have a divided country. To which I immediately replied: "It is a risk that must be run because we are 15 million voters with a different national project. There is much antagonism, is highly polarized.
Journalism, Literature and Politics: extreme combination?
Few things can be said of Poniatowska not already know. Mexican writer has gone from the chronic social and interviews, reports from Mexico inhabited by those who have nothing, the forgotten, the marginalized, of which suffer.
of literary creation through the testimonies of the mouth of the downtrodden in his harrowing book The Night of Tlatelolco, and the first National Journalism Award given to a woman in this country. He spent the ranks of the political campaign of Andrés Manuel López.
She is not interested in political office, his life are his children, books and travel.
- What do you like more ... literature, journalism or politics?
"Me, I hate politics, but participate! I like writing literature, but my job as a journalist in me has really help me keep our feet on the ground, for I have sometimes not. I read a newspaper with discipline and I like to do my job with discipline. For me, journalism has been my school, because in the convent school I prayed all day, I crossed myself, I confess, was the daughter of Mary. The lessons really gave me the people.
Despite being considered the best interviewer in Mexico and one of the great writers of our time with an international significance, it behaves like the easiest person in the world can exist. A woman
transparent allowing you to see the reality of the way it is, without any interference.
"I once told John Soriano, who was very wise, I would again live to make things better. He replied - Do not be!, Everything you do it again but worse, worse! -.
"It comforted me!".
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