Luis Rubio What is it that is left in the wake of a disruptive president whose objective -de facto- has been tearing down instead of building? That is the question that Mexicans should be scrutinizing as the present administration begins its final third. The daily …
Antonio Navalón In all major political and social movements in history, generally – over and above attempts to change the legal or historical profile through a process of assimilation – the tendencies that sought legal stability and constitutional defense won out. However, there have also …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Impunity runs through the bloodied veins of the massacre in Iguala of 43 students from the rural school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. During the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, military participation in the killings was concealed. And now it seems that something similar …
Empecemos por el final: México está en un proceso de destrucción de instituciones para asegurar que quienes están en el poder se queden para siempre; no es, como afirman, el inicio de una nueva era sino el fin de un sistema político que permitió que …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Mexican military faces a loss of prestige today as never before since that fateful October 2, 1968. After the massacre at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, it took decades and hundreds of DN-3 plans for the Mexican people …
Luis Rubio According to Ecclesiastes, there is “a time to destroy and a time to build… a time to tear and a time to mend… a time for war and a time for peace.” The pertinent question for Mexico is which of those ways of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukraine, promptly and without hesitation, responded to AMLO: your plan for a truce in the Russian-Ukrainian war is a ploy to support Russia. You are a phony President who is only looking for public relations spotlights. Ukraine, in a tweet, unmasks López …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Two confessions from President López Obrador in one week, each more fantastic than the other. And in the same week, as if they were an ill-timed justification to explain his decision to establish a political-commercial alliance with the Armed Forces, illegally transferring …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Mexico is getting armed, but it is unclear if it is to fight crime or control the opposition. It is clear, however, that integrating the National Guard into the Army is an act agreed upon between the Defense and the Executive. What …
In his masterpiece, whose title is borrowed for this piece, Alejo Carpentier distinguishes the difference between magical thinking and the marvelous real -not to be confused with García Márquez’s magical realism-. Writes Carpentier: “But it is that many forget, by disguising themselves as magicians and …