Renee De La Torre
Renée de la Torre is from Mexico and has a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Social Anthropology, from CIESAS and University of Guadalajara. Since 1993 she has been working as a Research Professor of Anthropology at CIESAS (Research and Study Centre of Social Anthropology) Occidente, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is also the co-founder of a Network of Researchers on Religious Phenomena in Mexico (RIFEM).
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What can the “Pope of the poor” really do in a Mexico of props?
The Pope’s visit to Mexico could have pushed for change, but politicians masked the country’s true suffering with spectacle.

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