Jaime Ortega Reyna’s research focuses on critical thought and the history of the subaltern classes in Mexico and Latin America. He has published more recently, among more than a dozen titles including co-written and co-edited works, Ternura y tempestad: el centenario de Fidel y el horizonte de la liberación nacional (2026); Es preciso soñar: Lenin en (y para el) marxismo latinoamericano (2024); and Del Palacio Negro a La Selva Lacandona: Louis Althusser en México (2023). A founding member of the Gramsci Mexico Association, he is currently a Professor at the Department of Politics and Culture/Division of Social Sciences and Humanities/Universidad Autómoma Metropolitana, while serving as facilitator of the working group “History and Current Conjuncture: Marxist Perspectives” sponsored by CLACSO.