Antonio Navalón Every day it is more difficult to understand the actions of our leaders. More often than not, our political leaders do things that only they seem to be able to understand. I want to believe that their way of acting transcends having other …
U.S. Department of State Executive Summary In 2020, Mexico became the United States’ third largest trading partner in goods and services and second largest in goods only. It remains one of our most important investment partners. Bilateral trade grew 482.2 percent from 1993-2020, and Mexico …
Photo: Alycia Fung on Pexels Luis Rubio “The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak,” affirms Eric Berkowitz* in an extraordinary study on censorship. For nearly a century, the post-Revolutionary Mexican government suppressed freedom of expression, engaged in all sorts of efforts to censure the media, controlled the conversation, and …
José Manuel Suárez Mier * My readers asked me to elaborate on the evolution of the political parties in the United States and from that historical vision to see what will happen today with an extreme polarization between parties and within themselves. The first government …
An enraged mob attacks a military garrison; the soldiers surrender and hand over their weapons and the military installation to the aggressors. In another part of the country, an army platoon is attacked by residents who do not accept their presence in that area; …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* The Republican Party of the United States, kidnapped by its most ignorant and radical segment of white supremacists, is a huge political threat because it is modeled on the Know-Nothing Party that emerged in 1853 to group those who wanted purity …
Image: Gearstd on iStock Luis Rubio The dearth of statesmen in the world, argued Napoleon, is due to the complexity inherent in the function: “to get the power you need to display absolute pettiness. To exercise power, you need to show true greatness.” Nearly three years after he assumed the presidency, it is evident that …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* In past installments, I presented the evolution of racism in the United States and how a line of thought emerged, the CRT, which affirms that all whites are racists and that a new social order is required based on the victory …
Antonio Navalón Since the time of Ronald Reagan, Ambassador John Gavin made the everlasting theme of drug trafficking fashionable, of the corruption that surrounded it, of its penetration and dominance in Mexico, a new stage has been making its way into national life. Under the …
Manuel Suárez-Mier After President AMLO’s party does relatively well in midterm elections, the country’s woes continue. The midterm elections of June 6 in Mexico were in appearance favorable to Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with victories in 11 of 15 …