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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …