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 …
Antonio Navalón One of the books that talks about that exciting part of the history of the United States that was the New Deal, promoted under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is called “No Ordinary Time” written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, translated into Spanish …
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 …
Juan Villoro In 2016, during the campaign for the US presidency, I recalled in this space a novel that anticipated Donald Trump’s triumph: It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935, while Mussolini was invading Ethiopia and Hitler was suspending the civil rights …
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 …
Antonio Navalón It is clear that until January 2025, the flagship and most important program, the Treaty between Mexico, the United States, and Canada – also known as CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC – which in turn represents one of the largest commercial markets in the world, will not …