Antonio Velasco Piña is a Mexican novelist, spiritual writer and essayist.

He is the founder of La Nueva Mexicanidad, a group advocating the Mexicanism or Mexicanista New Age

New Age

The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...

 or Neopagan movement purportedly based on Aztec religion

Aztec religion

Aztec religion is the Mesoamerican religion practiced by the Aztec empire. Like other Mesoamerican religions, it had elements of human sacrifice in connection with a large number of religious festivals which were held according to patterns of the Aztec calendar...

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The movement is partly inspired by the writings of French anthropologist Laurette Séjourné

Laurette Séjourné

Laurette Séjourné was a Mexican archeologist and ethnologist best known for her study of the civilizations of Teotihuacan and the Aztecs and her theories concerning the Mesoamerican culture hero, Quetzalcoatl....

 who specialized on Aztec and Mesoamerican spirituality.

El círculo negro (2006) presents a conspiracy theory

Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...

according to which Mexico during the mid 20th century was governed by a secret society called "the black circle" which assassinated Mexican presidents who sought reelection.

External links

• http://antoniovelascopina.mx/