Federico Reyes Heroles Frenzied is perhaps the word: exalted, agitated, excited, hectic, mad… crazy, the Academy tells us. Frenzy is what sailors call a marvelous and cruel spectacle simultaneously. Some minor species in great abundance, perhaps sardines, provoke the madness of others: pelicans, dolphins, cormorants… …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Marcelo Ebrard has forgotten Karl Marx’s basic premise: economic policy moves the world. Everything political is also economic. Historical materialism is based on that foundational premise. That is the ideological basis of his party. It is relevant because Ebrard, as future Secretary …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce The sudden extraction of Mayo Zambada from Mexico has triggered a crisis in the political transition led by AMLO. What was once a smooth and controlled process has now become a transition fraught with severe risks and threats, particularly for the outgoing …
Luis Rubio As the saying goes, after an intemperate night before comes the morning after. A less amiable way to observe the current government is to recall Louis XV when he stated, “Après moi le déluge.” Soon, the most destructive Mexican government of the last …
Federico Reyes Heroles To Norma Mereles, for her kind firmness. Is national pride something desirable? Of course, not so the dangerous nationalisms that invent identities and hatreds. But that healthy pride must be based on facts. That is a big difference. On the corner of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The whip and the carrot have already been brought out in the destruction of the institutionality of the Mexican State. Morena offers the members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) poison, short life, and hatred. To the Magistrates …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s support for Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship is a fact. The question is why and whether this support is a correct policy for the Mexican State. To support Nicolás Maduro under the current conditions is to help a dictatorship. It is a dictatorship …
Luis Rubio “If it does not make sense, it sounds metallic,” goes a popular refrain. In Mexico, the governments change, but not the practices or customs. Corruption could be an evil, a cultural factor, or a characteristic, but never a crime. Many are accused of …
Otto Granados Roldán There is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that any competitive process of sustained economic growth is based on increases in productivity, the levels of investment made by a country, and the institutional and regulatory framework. The first depends on education, talent development, innovation, …
Federico Reyes Heroles Mexico’s democratic spring eclipses. On the 24th, the masquerades fell. The last act is terrifying. The authoritarian culture lives days of apogee. It is on many fronts and has had different impacts, but the result speaks. Signs of authoritarianism surfaced in the …