Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador has consistently carved out his legacy. He attacks, defames, harasses, and insults. He behaves not as a president but as a neighborhood vandal. He has educated a generation of his followers by teaching them that this is the best …
Antonio Navalón From North to South and East to West, it is convenient to define the moment in which the so-called democratic universe decided to sacrifice the spirit and the letter of its laws in exchange for the popularity and enlightenment of its leaders. The …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador is beside himself. He is what follows from furious. He’s raging. What conditions made him resemble Adolf Hitler in the last days of World War II when German defeat was inevitable? The latest externalization of his inner state of …
Luis Rubio Jack-of-all-trades (Milusos in Spanish) is one of the most accurate and audacious, at the same time, characterizations of the Mexican who can do nothing other than work for a living. Héctor Suárez, an actor, popularized the term in his film of the same name, …
Federico Reyes Heroles …Mask the face and mask the smile. Octavio Paz He told me in a tone that he couldn’t take “no” for an answer. He knows it. Just a pancake was the final blow. Here we go, to La Sirenita (The Little Mermaid), …
Antonio Navalón Politicians can be considered extraterritorial beings and immune to the impact that time has on others. They are not affected by the laws of gravity or those of nature. A politician in full bloom is someone who is – like some antibiotics of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce One notable feature of the current election campaign has been the use of polls for propaganda purposes. Because of this, polls inevitably vary in their results Crazily. Crazily would not seem to be a particularly accurate adjective. But in this case, it …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On September 30, 1938, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain, descended from his plane, arriving from Munich, Germany, and declared, “Here is peace for our time”. He showed a document bearing Adolf Hitler’s signature in which he pledged not to …
Luis Rubio The advent of populist currents, left and right, has been accompanied by the rejection of so-called globalization and a systemic summons for the reappearance of an all-powerful government, aiming to correct the ills afflicting humanity. That narrative does not deny the extraordinary advance …
Federico Reyes Heroles All human inventions are fallible. Even those that receive the most attention. Francis Bacon asserted that knowledge arises more readily from error than from confusion. The Hindenburg collapsed. The Titanic sank. For example, no matter how much research is done, no matter …