Mexican historian and author Enrique Krauze, one of the world’s leading visionaries on Mexico’s political future, will present the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at UALR’s University Theatre.

Krauze’s lecture, “Octavio Paz: Mexico Poetry and History,” is made possible through funding by the Rockefeller lecture program. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in Gallery I in UALR’s Fine Arts Building. For more information or to request tickets, call 501-569-3296.

The event, in collaboration with the Arkansas Mexico 2010 celebration, is also co-sponsored by the UALR Chancellor’s Office; the UALR Office of Campus Life; and the UALR College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Born in Mexico City in 1947, Krauze, is recognized as one of the world’s leading visionaries on Mexico’s political future. His groundbreaking work, including his book, “Mexico: Biography of Power,” earned him a place in Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 public policy intellectuals of our time.

For more than 20 years, Krauze worked alongside Octavio Paz, Nobel laureate in literature, at Editorial Vuelta, the publishing company Paz co-founded. In 1999, Krauze created, Letras Libres, a cultural magazine that is published by Editorial Vuelta in both Mexico and Spain. In 1991, he founded the publishing house Editorial Clío, which publishes books and produces documentaries.

Krauze has authored several documentaries and television series about Mexican history, including “México: Siglo XX (1998-2000)” and “México: Nuevo Siglo (2001-2006).”

In 2003, the Spanish government conferred Krauze the “Gran Orden de Alfonso X, El Sabio,” and in 2005 he was inducted as a member of El Colegio Nacional in Mexico. The King of Spain granted him the “Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica” in 2008.

His work in the United States has been published in the New Republic, the Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.