Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election. For the first time in seventy-one years, the Institutional In Mexico, the year 2000 coincided with the end of a The beginning of a new millennium is naturally This was my first glimpse of Amores perros (2000), the film that would pull back the veil on our national reality. “You’ll see,” he promised, eyes alight, his fingernails scratching the tablecloth. Many of the people involved in the project were first-timers. He smiled at my confusion and excitedly explained his appearance: he was preparing for a film role as a guerrilla turned street scavenger. It took me a little while to recognize Emilio Echevarría, the marvelous actor I had worked with on a number of projects. Who was this man who seemed to have fallen from grace? His shaggy, graying mane and scraggly beard made him look like a prophet of the apocalypse his fingernails were long, sharp, and worn from use, as though he had arrived there by clawing through the walls. I was walking to my table when a person who appeared to live on the streets approached and greeted me with strange familiarity. The year 1999 was several months old when I entered Los Guajolotes, a restaurant that, like so many others in Mexico City, has now disappeared.
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