Samuel Martínez Roque

Samuel Martínez Roque is a Mexican writer based in El Paso, Texas.

Recent work include: 
Martínez Roque v. USA is a nonfiction political essay series examining how the United States enable exploitation through institutional neglect, bureaucratic indifference, and structural violence. Through firsthand testimony, legal analysis, and political indictment, Martínez Roque reveals how the State treats Ramon Ontiveros’ conduct as ordinary, reproducing the same violence at an institutional level by failing to distinguish evidence from paperwork, survival from credibility, and law from performance. American hypocrisy, as examined here, is not merely institutional; it is theatrical.