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Navigating Mexico’s New Lawless Roads *

Photo: Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty on thedailybeast.com Manuel Suárez Mier The Lawless Roads was the dyspeptic travelogue that English author Graham Greene wrote in the 1930s of his journey to Mexico – a “cursed nation full of hate and death.” At that time, the violence was launched by a rabidly socialist, anti-Catholic government, that pursued violent …

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Merkel: The Shadow of a Giant

Antonio Navalón Yesterday, Germany held general elections. For the first time in 16 years, an election in which a particular name did not appear on the ballot. In terms of conditions and term of office, Angela Merkel, the woman who can only be compared to …

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False Dilemmas.

Image: Daniels Joffe on Unsplash Luis Rubio Alexander Pope, a XIX-century English poet, penned the phrase “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Mexico’s relationship with the United States is, was, and will be complex and variegated as long as Mexicans do not resolve the fundamental problems of their own development, which would presumably …

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The Change Without End.

Antonio Navalón The 20th-anniversary commemoration ceremony on September 11 was a very sad event. Not only because of what it evoked, because of the memory of pain, because of the treacherous memory, or because of the conditions in which it was carried out, but because, …

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Corruption

Image: Tupungato on iStock Luis Rubio When he was a comedian on television in Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, garbed in a prison inmate’s uniform,  criticized the corruption of the politicians, accusing them of being atheists and not being able to imagine a better life than that deriving from the reigning corruption. Three years later, as President …

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The Prostituted Presidency*

Manuel Suárez Mier Here is a text that helps understand why the US, followed by many other countries, could fall in the quality of their institutions and democracy and move towards authoritarianism. In the search for how it happened that a reality TV actor, ruffian, …

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Noah’s Week

Image: Chinnapong on iStock Juan Villoro 2020 ended submerged in the pandemic. The only thing we can hope for in the uncertain future is that it drifts away from the present. We are in parentheses, something new for a world that was defined by rush, instant gratification, traveling everywhere until recently. Nobody educated us to …

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The Annoyment of Words

Antonio Navalón Words have always had a fundamental weight in the history of humanity, especially in what is related to faith, hope, or the generation of alternatives and solutions. We must not forget that it is written in the book of books: “in the beginning …

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The Day of Bitterness

Antonio Navalón Some days mark the milestones of historic events. In the twentieth century, there were several attempts to show that human evolution had reached a point of no return. The first of September of 1939 was proof of this. The 20th century was a …

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The World and Mexico

Image: Romolo Tavani on iStock Luis Rubio In New Zealand, the Maoris engage in a ritual at the start of rugby games called “haka,” which consists of a series of grimaces, exaggerated gestures, and movements –ranging from sticking out the tongue to jumping and making all kinds of menacing noises- with the object of scaring …

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