Te prometieron el futuro, pero era Roma otra vez

Aloisa Colorado Aguilar; Eduardo Hernández Hernández; Marycruz Álvarez Jiménez; Alejandro Moreno

doi:10.22201/ceide.16076079e.2026.27.2.15

Authors

Aloisa Colorado Aguilar Euro-Hispanoamerican University https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9650-7576
Eduardo Hernández Hernández Euro-Hispanoamerican University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-2235
Marycruz Álvarez Jiménez Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Xalapa, Veracruz, México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-7612
Alejandro Moreno Dirección General de Cultura de Paz y Derechos Humanos, Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, México https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2870-789X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/ceide.16076079e.2026.27.2.15

Keywords:

Social evolution, Social traditions, Social inequality, Preservation of customs

Abstract

What if ancient Rome were not as distant as we tend to believe? This essay begins with an illusion: that of inhabiting an empire that, in truth, never fully disappeared. Through scenes that shift between 100 CE and present-day Mexico, unsettling continuities emerge: absolute authority within the family, forced marriages, child labor, and forms of labor exploitation that today go by different names. Rather than a historical comparison, the text proposes an exercise in estrangement: seeing the everyday as if it belonged to another time. The question that lingers is simple yet unsettling: how much have we really changed?

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