The Big Race

Luis Rubio Electoral contests are a little like military campaigns: an objective is disputed, arms and instruments of combat are deployed, and the enemy’s defeat is sought, in this case, the contender. In his biography on Napoleon, Andrew Roberts states that it was “a measure …

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Who are you?

Federico Reyes Heroles Tell me what you pay attention to, and I’ll tell you who you are. José Ortega y Gasset. Distraction? There is a lot of it; I do not mean the necessary one, which allows us for a moment to travel out of …

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The winds of the people

Antonio Navalón Many years ago, precisely in 1937 – months after the Spanish Civil War began – the poet Miguel Hernández, a native of a place full of history and invasions, Alicante, and who was self-taught, wrote a poem that completely uplifted the Spanish people. …

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The last line of defense

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce According to Henry Kissinger’s account of the last days before Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States, he felt a sudden fascination with the mystical and the magical as a desperate refuge from his political and personal tragedy. Kissinger explains …

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Priorities

Luis Rubio It is not difficult to elucidate the problems confronting Mexico; the hard part is identifying suitable solutions and creating consensus for their implementation. The problems are, in good measure, ageless and known to all, but their causes, consequences, and potential solutions are always …

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Treason

Federico Reyes Heroles Cold night, we walk through the main square of our country, among the buildings that have been silent witnesses of a thousand battles. That strange and symbolic conjunction of the Executive Power, the National Palace, where Juarez died, home of the neoclassical …

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