Priorities

Luis Rubio It is not difficult to elucidate the problems confronting Mexico; the hard part is identifying suitable solutions and creating consensus for their implementation. The problems are, in good measure, ageless and known to all, but their causes, consequences, and potential solutions are always …

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Treason

Federico Reyes Heroles Cold night, we walk through the main square of our country, among the buildings that have been silent witnesses of a thousand battles. That strange and symbolic conjunction of the Executive Power, the National Palace, where Juarez died, home of the neoclassical …

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Time to march to the rescue

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Is taking to the streets to express oneself the same as rescuing the nation? Some will say that it is necessary to fill the streets to make oneself feel and present the demands of a large sector of society. There are also …

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 Counterpoint

Luis Rubio The great magic of the old political system lay in the expectation that there would always be a new opportunity to reinvent the country with the change of governments. When a government was bad, the saying went that “there is no evil that …

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Emergency

Federico Reyes Heroles The central motive is desperation. If we were living in times of democratic normality, it would not be necessary. The authorities would pay attention to the reasons, science, and common sense. They would not feel harassed by criteria differences and would not …

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Mexico: First report of political violence

Executive Summary 1.- Organized crime intervenes in elections through: i) assassinations, assaults, and threats against public officials and candidates, ii) campaign financing, iii)imposition of candidates, iv) mobilization or inhibition of voting, and v) tampering with votes at polling stations.2.- Organized crime will intervene (more than …

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Endless Power

Antonio Navalón The fifth horseman is a figure of recognized existence and presence in most of the catastrophes of humanity. The world is more aware of the four horsemen, although, on the occasions when the fifth horseman appears, the situation ends up being a complete …

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What to do?

Photo: Pierre Bamin on Unsplash Liébano Sáenz The President does not believe in or practice transparency, the right to information, and even less accountability; for him, the law is not the law, hence his disdain for the Constitution. The opposition faces a dilemma: whether to discuss the President’s reform initiatives. Last Tuesday, the President was …

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Eagerness for Militarism

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO is teaming up with the military to alleviate his uncertainty on the June elections as if seeking to mitigate a killing pain. It will be his last resort in the feared eventuality of a total or partial defeat. He does not …

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What’s Missing?

Luis Rubio Paraphrasing Albert Camus in his speech on receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, “all governments doubtless feel called upon to reform the world.” Few achieve it. As soon as their mandate ends, the reverberations begin: what remained inconclusive, what was not done, what …

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