Héctor Jaimes (Venezuela, 1964). Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA). He is the author of Philosophy of Mexican muralism: Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros (2012), The rewriting of history in the Spanish-American essay (2001), as well as the editions of Mexican muralism. Unpublished texts by David Alfaro Siqueiros (2012) and Octavio Paz: the aesthetic dimension of the essay (2004).