Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies, working with Spain’s Instituto Cervantes and cultural partners, staged a formal homage to poet Jaime Sabines at the Palacio de San Lázaro with a program of readings and panels.
- Luis García Montero, who leads the Instituto Cervantes, used his speech to defend the humanities and poetry, citing victims in Gaza and recent bombings in Iran to argue for international justice.
- Mexico’s education secretary, Mario Delgado, led a collective reading of Los amorosos at the Museo Vivo del Muralismo and said the homage will be repeated in schools to draw students to literature.
- Family members with essayist Marco Antonio Campos are preparing an unpublished volume titled Poemas rescatados that gathers Sabines’s writings from 1948 to 1968.
- Speakers described Sabines as a poet of everyday life with strong youth reach online, pointing to heavy viewing of his recorded readings on platforms like YouTube.