The duty of the intellectual is to serve as a compass, a road map. More than many in the twentieth-century Hispanic world, Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the Mexican poet and intellectual, was committed to ...

Octavio Paz admired Lodhi Garden but missed its iconic bougainvilleas. These trees bloom yearly, enchanting Delhi with their ...

“It has always surprised me,” wrote the 20 th-century Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, “that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs ...

“There is nothing so joyous as a Mexican fiesta, but there is also nothing so sorrowful,” wrote Nobel-Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz, in The Labyrinth of Solitude. “Our fiestas are explosions. Life ...