"Mexico is all a shadow, in the long run it corrodes you".
There is
Mexico
and beyond in the book by journalist Adolfo Fantaccini, a professional who lives and knows agency journalism and has also experimented with newspaper journalism for a long time.
In the key year of this book,
1970
, it was precisely the latter that he wore as an envoy.
Mexico has long been a dormant memory for Fantaccini, kept in his memory drawer and it was the stand-by due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdown, that brought it to light.
In this book, 1970 opens with the football World Championships, those which "could be followed live in every corner of the planet - writes Fantaccini - thanks to satellite transmission. This was already an epochal revolution, in teletransmissions and in the way to experience a sporting phenomenon. From Mexico onwards, nothing would be the same again".
Mexico from sports competition becomes a category and becomes a state of mind, starting from the weather fluctuations (the real one of large temperature ranges), passing through the football events, the techniques and times (alive and dead) of the correspondent's work, for the days waiting for the events, for the trips in pursuit of the matches, for the study of the teams, of the characters, of the stories of the players and also for the music because when there is
By 1970 they were The
Beatles
, albeit already broken up as a group with "Lennon and Paul McCartney at loggerheads and one too many Yoko Ono".
In that year we listened to the music that marked the following decades and it is also the period of the great events from Woodstock of 1969, to the three editions of the Isle of White, the last of which in 1970 and then like a rabbit that emerges from a cylinder, an "anomalous" Italian event: the "Palermo pop", a three-day event in which Aretha Franklin, the 'duke' Duke Ellington, Kenny Clarke, Tony Scott, Johnny Hallyday performed.
A revolution, like Mexico, like the Beatles, like 1970.