Luis Rubio Sarajevo 1914. Gavrilo Princip shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. One more assassination, except that this one would have indescribable consequences, starting with dozens of millions of deaths. An apparently insignificant event unleashes forces that nothing or no one could contain after …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The situation of insecurity and generalized violence is, without a doubt, the problem that shakes the country the most. All surveys agree on this fact: of the issues that most concern Mexicans, it is insecurity that is mentioned most frequently. Therefore, it …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The non-attendance of the Morena, PT, and Verde candidate to the CitiBanamex forum was not an accident or the result of a scheduling problem. The candidate and her team consciously decided not to attend such a meeting. What was so particular about …
Luis Rubio In his novel on Argentina entitled Zama, Antonio Di Benedetto speaks of the “victims of expectation,” which Michael Reid, the Latin-American expert, interprets as the victims of waiting, a metaphor for the permanent expectancy of achieving the progress and prosperity that in Mexico would …
For over five years, discord, disorder, and backwardness have prevailed in Mexico of the 4 T. The country needs precisely the opposite: without harmony, order becomes difficult; without order, progress is impossible; without progress, the country exacerbates its inhabitants’ problems. It is as simple as …
Federico Reyes Heroles With a tight hug to Carlos Loret. I was very saddened by the article. El Universal published the results of an investigation by the Pew Research Center. This is one of the most reputable institutions that has made a breakthrough in many …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Pink Tide and the Morena party faced each other in a competition to establish the importance of their respective conceptions of the world. In the first round, they compared something apparently mundane but not so mundane: how did the demonstrators arrive …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidential campaign kick-off event in the Zócalo was, in reality, a bow to Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And it was also an act of submission of the candidate to the real leader of the movement. And a maneuver to avoid …
Luis Rubio Electoral contests are a little like military campaigns: an objective is disputed, arms and instruments of combat are deployed, and the enemy’s defeat is sought, in this case, the contender. In his biography on Napoleon, Andrew Roberts states that it was “a measure …
Federico Reyes Heroles Tell me what you pay attention to, and I’ll tell you who you are. José Ortega y Gasset. Distraction? There is a lot of it; I do not mean the necessary one, which allows us for a moment to travel out of …