Magdalena Gómez
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Magdalena Gómez (1953-) is an American playwright, poet, social activist, motivational speaker, and performer. She lives in Springfield, Massachusetts where she is the artistic director of Teatro V!da, the city's first Latin@ theatre, and served as the city's second Poet Laureate. Gómez has worked with young people through the arts for nearly forty years and focuses much of her work on intergenerational collaboration.
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Sep 16, 2026
Far Left
Her column criticizes the Indigenous consultation process for excluding the very communities it targets.
This is an internal left critique that Morena must manage carefully, since it comes from a sympathetic voice questioning how the INPI ran the consultation.
Jul 22, 2026
Far Left
In her column, she attacked the CNDH's recent recommendation on Ayotzinapa for discrediting the GIEI and Alejandro Encinas' work.
Morena endorses her critique, seeing the CNDH as a vestige of the old regime that obstructs truth and justice for Ayotzinapa.