Enrique Krauze

Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (b. September 16, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican historian, essayist and publisher. He is president of the publisher "Editorial Clío", the cultural magazine [http://www.letraslibres.com "Letras Libres"] , and serves in the board of directors of the Instituto Cervantes and Televisa, a Spanish-language media giant. He is the son of Helen Kleinbort Krauze, a Polish writer who worked for the newspaper "Novedades de México".

Krauze received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. In 1978, he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has worked as a professor at the UNAM, El Colegio de México, and St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). In addition, for more than twenty years he co-edited "Vuelta", a prestigious literary magazine, with Octavio Paz.

As an author, Krauze has written several books including "Siglo de caudillos" (for which he won the Comillas Biography Award), "Biografía del poder" (1987, published in English by Harper Collins as "Mexico: Biography of Power") and "La presidencia imperial" (1997). He has also produced "Mexico Siglo XX" and "Mexico Nuevo Siglo", two historical TV series about Mexico, on Televisa in Mexico, and for PBS in the United States.

He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of History since 1989 and a member of the National College since April 27, 2005. In 2003 he was awarded the Great Cross of Alfonso X by the Government of Spain.

He was criticized by Andrés Manuel López Obrador for an article in the "Washington Post" [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400699.html Enrique Krauze - Mexico: Democracy Under Threat - washingtonpost.com ] at www.washingtonpost.com] Enrique Krauze said in this article "López Obrador has seriously damaged Mexico's young democracy by trying to sustain the unsustainable: that Mexico today is the same as Mexico in the days of PRI rule" and also more controversial "It is crystal-clear that López Obrador is not a democrat. He's a revolutionary with a totalitarian mentality and messianic aspirations who is using the rhetoric of democracy to try to destroy this third historic attempt at democracy in Mexico". After this article on August 25 2006 López Obrador in an interview with Jacobo Zabludovsky called Enrique Krauze "a deadweight devoted to the [political] right" (un bulto entregado a la derecha).

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*es icon [http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/template/content.aspx?se=vida&te=detallemiembro&mi=124 Biography] at the Colegio Nacional ("National College").
*es icon [http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/04ek.html Biography] at the Mexican Academy of History.
* [http://slate.msn.com/id/2993/ Slate: He-Who-Speaks]
*es icon [http://www.letraslibres.com/ Letras Libres]