Antonio Navalón The Chinese year that will end at the end of January is called the year of the rat. Certainly, and alluding to its Chinese symbolism, 2020 was a year not of predators but of rodents that have managed to dynamite – under the …
Luis Rubio The virus and the potential conclusion of the health crisis depend, ultimately, on science. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, it will produce the drugs to deal with it or the vaccine to suppress it. There’s hardly any serious laboratory in the world that …
Photo: El Economista Manuel Suárez Mier My dear Luis Enrique Mercado (LEM) was one more victim charged by the scythe of the pandemic that plagues Mexico like few countries because of the government’s criminal performance to confront it, which is deliberate to concentrate power in the hands of the president and use it electorally. I …
Photo: Pickawood on Unsplash Luis Rubio Once he received an important recognition, Sean Connery explained that, on coming from a modest background, the great opportunity in his lifetime presented itself when he learned to read at five years of age. Reading was one of the great opportunities in this year of the virus. Here go …
Photo: Diana on Pexels Manuel Suárez Mier* With the qualification of Joe Biden’s presidential triumph by the Electoral College last week, the cob of almost unanimous support for Trump began to be shelled from members of his party and a growing number of his members in Congress that began to detach from him. Photo: Amaia …
Photo: Moritz Knöringer on Unsplash Antonio Navalón Turn the page. That is the first wish of the forty-sixth President of the United States, Joseph Biden, once the Electoral College confirmed on December 14 what we all knew since November 5: that, despite Donald Trump, he had won the elections. But to turn the pages, the …
Photo: The Jay Walker library on PriceyPads.com Luis Rubio I ended the year reading a book nearly unique in its genre and extraordinary in its transcendence: the history of two revolutionaries as seen by their daughter. Daughter of Revolutionaries, by Laurence Debray, tells the story of her parents prior to her birth and throughout her life, and …
Manuel Suárez Mier One of the positive consequences of Trump’s foolish refusal and his henchmen to accept the presidential victory of Joe Biden is that the inhabitants of the United States and many interested foreigners closely followed the minutiae of the electoral process, which has served as an exemplary course of civility. Photo: Gotta be …
Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Antonio Navalón 2020, the year that the Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. 2020, the year in which the world was already looking more and more like an absolutely unstoppable conquest of technological development, global interconnection, and freedoms. A year in which – despite all the political elections’ contradictions …
Photo: Daniel Maforte on Pexels Luis Rubio There is no matter as transcendent for Mexico as the poverty that characterizes the country’s South, impacting the entire national life. Vast natural and human resources are concentrated there that cannot display the best of themselves: it is from there that much of the historic migration to the …