Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska (born the May 19th 1932 with Paris) is a Journaliste, writer and political Activiste Mexican.

Biography

Elena Poniatowska , born in the Aristocracy princess Helene Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor , is the girl of prince Jean Joseph Evremond Sperry Poniatowski, descendant direct of the king Stanislas II of Poland, and a Mexican mother of French ascent.

Political activism

In the months preceding the presidential elections Mexican by 2006, Elena Poniatowska gave its support for candidant Parti the democratic revolution, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In April 2006, it appeared in a series of television commercials to denounce the “libelous” practices of the two other principal parties, the Parti national action and the institutional revolutionary Parti. Those sought according to it to bring López Obrador closer to the policy gauchist of the president Venezuelan Hugo Chávez, and to show it to harm the economy of the country.

This engagement caused strong reactions on behalf of the partisans of the conservative parties. But Elena Poniatowska also accepted the support of a certain number of intellectuals who published a booklet in his favor. 24 international personalities signed the document: the Nobel Prize of literature 1998 Jose Saramago, Nélida Piñon, Rubem Fonseca, Rosa Montero, Juan Goytisolo, Fernando Savater, Helena Araujo, Laura Restrepo, Álvaro Mutis, Diamela Eltit, Gonzalo Rojas, Antonio Skármeta, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Gioconda Belli, Ernesto Cardenal, Sergio Ramírez, Eduardo Galeano, Dory To summon, Beatriz Pastor, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Julio Ortega, Mirko Lauer, Rosario Shoed and Edmundo Paz Soldán.

In July 2006, Elena Poniatowska and several intellectuals condemned in a lampoon the Israeli attacks to Lebanon. The consequence was reproaches on behalf of the Ambassadeur of Israel to the Mexico, showing the country to support the Terrorisme.

Lawsuit for plagiarism

In 1997, the writer and leader of the student Movement of 1968, Luis González de Alba brought a Procès for Plagiat in Elena Poniatowska. It gained it, after having shown that Noche de Tlatelolco , recalling the events of the Massacre of Tlatelolco, contained passages extracted from its book Los días there los años . Elena Poniatowska had to modify more than 500 lines of its work.

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