Tweet us at book tv or post it on your facebook page. Good evening. Im the director, and on behalf of our staff, as you know we are finishing the festival week of programming with this lecture. This series focused on mexicos culture, mexicos politics. We had a fence on on drugs, mexican politics, cuba and we actually did a mexican category last night. Talking about this lecture tonight, this is the quintessential point of the festival. This is the Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture. We find work that is relevant to us in the recent years. The lecture has a symbolic place in the programming. Its actually in the last couple of years has been a remarkable occupation. I also have to mention that this year for the first time in the history of the festival, we collaborated collaborated and hopefully our collaboration will continue. Let me bring us the next speaker who will introduce our author. [applause] good evening and thank you to all of you for being here. The mission is to both cel