Mérida: my favorite city in Spain and also Mexico, and perhaps one day in Venezuela. Octavio Paz wrote a beautiful essay on it in 1937 and I would like to read this discussion of it on paper. Paz: Mérida, la ciudad moderna, dulce y clara, es el henequén. La vida. La muerte de los campesinos. … More Henequén as social actor: dos lunas en Yucatán