Antonio Navalón From 1850 to 1990, the history of Latin America was conditioned entirely by what was convenient, allowed, understood, and wanted by the United States of America. The Monroe Doctrine or -later the “Big Stick” policy promoted by Theodore Roosevelt – was an example …
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 …
Photo: Benjamín Flores on Proceso.com.mx Luis Rubio The art of governing, says David Konzevik, is the art of managing the gap between the expectations that the citizenry entertains and the day-to-day realities. Mexico is a living example of the enormous breach between both factors and the incapacity of its governments to bridge it. The question …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* I began last week the account of racism in the United States and how an opposite current of thought and indoctrination emerged that seeks to amend the horror of slavery and racial discrimination by arguing that “race is a cultural category …
Antonio Navalón We all lack a lot of study, knowledge, and reflection on who they are, what they are like, what they think, and what the Chinese and Xi Jinping want. These are bad times to be the leader of a country, a political party, …
Photo: Cyano66 on iStock Luis Rubio No one can confuse the government of China with that of Mexico. Independently of the immense historical and cultural differences, the two nations seek to transform themselves, each in their own style and form. Whatever ends up being the future of the Asian giant, the great contrast between the …
Juan Villoro “Organizing a library is a silent way of exercising the art of criticism,” wrote Borges. Books live in contagious density; they dialogue with each other; they benefit from other people’s discoveries, but also errors: Ptolemy, who was wrong, allows us to assess Galileo’s …