Manuel Espino, Why Now?

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Manuel Espino publicly reported that two cartels were open to a pact “in good faith” with AMLO. The revelation indicated that a consultation process was underway with “the cartels” to find out which ones would join the “peace process”. At first, there …

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Illusions

Luis Rubio In July of 1914, a month before WWI broke out, none of the protagonists of what would be a grisly conflagration had any idea of what was to come, or, as Christopher Clark writes, they were sleepwalking toward the precipice. On reading that …

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Progressive Militarization.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Mexico is undergoing accelerated progressive militarization. President López Obrador is most likely allowing it because he feels his days as President are running out. He trusts the uniformed as the only ones capable of continuing the transformation that he fantasizes is underway. …

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Changes

Luis Rubio “Distance -wrote Samuel Johnson- has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude”. The times change, and …

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Hatred as the Driving Force

Antonio Navalón Since the beginning, since the Light and the Word were made, love and hate have been the elements that have most conditioned interpersonal relationships in the history of humanity. Many times, when one asks what the end result of the marvelous story of …

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The Army is Facing the Abyss

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The hacking of the Army’s servers has put the national spotlight on the military corps and its most important activities, offering an intimate look at its philias and phobias. The hacking is thus an exercise in demystifying an organization previously revered and …

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The Moral Corruption of the State

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce El Rey del Cash (The King of Cash) reveals that we lack compatibility between social morality and the perverse urges for power. This essential flaw explains why this book has raised so much controversy. Knowing the immorality of the ruler when he …

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Sequelae

Luis Rubio Long after the promotors of “great” changes imagine they would, the consequences appear, generally the product of not recognizing that human beings learn and respond in the face of the stimuli presented to them. G.K. Chesterton described the phenomenon with an example: “Don’t …

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The Army Submits the President

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The SEDENALeaks (Secretariat of National Defense or SEDENA) have forced us to rethink how the political system works in our country. Particularly about the role of the Armed Forces in the decision-making cycle between civilian and military authorities. The revelations are not …

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Democracy in Uniform

Antonio Navalón The night of October 4 and the dawn of October 5 made people believe that the six-year term of President López Obrador had come to an end and that the new government, led by the Mexican Armed Forces, was entering to dispose of, …

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