Hugo Vargas (Tampico, Mexico), editor and journalist, has held various management positions in the Mexican private and academic publishing industry. His features, stories and essays are published in newspapers and magazines and Mexican, in Spain, in Letra Internacional and textures. He has participated in collective works Mexico before the crisis, led by Pablo Gonzalez Casanova and Hector Aguilar Camin (Siglo XXI Editores), and Altered reality. Drugs, hallucinogens and culture, compiled by Julio Glockner and Enrique Soto (Debate). He is the author of When we reach the right (Pangea, 1997) The press and the battle for ideas (Mora Institute, 1998) and Pirates of the Caribbean (Conaculta, 2006).