Gabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual.

He was born in the city of Monterrey, located in Nuevo León state, México, in 1934.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Vuelta magazine from 1976 to 1992. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional since September 26, 1984. He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Spanish Language since 1986.

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	Ibsen Martinez, Unproductive Progress: Library of Economics and Liberty (1556 words) Gabriel Zaid, a brilliant Mexican poet and essayist, uses the term to address the issue of the public servant's corruption as one of the most demoralizing by-products of Latin American statism. Zaid, who holds a degree in Engineering and is now 72, has made a decisive contribution to diminish the monopolies of social and political thought, not only in his own country, but also in the rest of Latin America. Zaid contends that "you have to distinguish among progress, a conscience of progress (be it laudatory or critical), a faith in progress (conceived as a result of either divine providence, natural law or historical law) and a will to progress (be it blind or self-critical)."
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