Overview

• Montero launched Antología personal at Mexico City’s Fondo de Cultura Económica venue, presenting a 207-page selection organized into Palabra, Edad and Amor with a prologue by Marco Antonio Campos.
• He characterizes poetry as an act of hospitality that invites readers into shared intimate and collective memory.
• During the event, he dedicated a poem to Palestinian victims of the Gaza conflict and condemned US bombings of Iran as assaults on human rights.
• He warned that US imperialism now poses the greatest threat to democratic and cultural pluralism in the Spanish-speaking world.
• As Director of the Instituto Cervantes, he outlined the institution’s mission to defend Spanish-language unity against modern authoritarian and imperialist forces.