Arturo Vergara Hernandez

El Tlachiquero Jacobino Arturo Vergara Hernandez

The Tlachiquero Jacobino is an independent cultural project that gathers the feelings and intellectual concerns of writers and creators originated in or adopted by the generous magueyero highlands and its different regions in Mexico. With its title, it pays homage to the humble once-numerous character, now almost a museum piece, who takes on the task of picking up the maguey juice in situ and then transport it to the tinacal and transform the beverage into pulque, an ancestral an enigmatic drink that seduces many and condenses in itself centuries of history, tradition and pride, but it is also a reproach to the injustices. Our tlachiquero is (or aspires to be, symbolically talking) Jacobin, that is to say, republican and insurrectionist, like those French protagonists of the Revolution that ended with the monarchies in the world. Although our collaborators do not wear a phrygian cap, but a peasant, like the 18th-century Frenchmen (enlightened and revolutionaries) they have no qualms about exalting local culture and history or expressing what in many ways overwhelms us. It is not a political publication, its interests are cultural, but we believe that politics is always immersed in history, poetry, art and culture. The cultural democracy that the Jacobins of acocote suggests is a direct heir to the model proposed in the 18th century by Rousseau.