Brenda Lozano

About Brenda Lozano

Brenda studied literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She was named as one of the Bogota 39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America, in 2017. On August 16, 2021 she was posted to the Mexican embassy in Spain as a cultural attache. Just four days later, however, president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador complained that Brenda had been previously critical of his policies and rescinded her appointment. Brenda became the target of this coordinated astroturfing attack, harassing her via social media. She doesn’t come from a bookish family. If things were going well, their reward was not a book but a blue or red slushie on their way out of the supermarket. So when she came to read while at university, she could not believe the amazing and wonderful things that she was finding,