Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While in Gaza, the death toll exceeds 20,000, in Mexico, the death toll in 2023 is approaching 30,000. President Lopez Obrador has diplomatically called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas group in Gaza. But when he refers to insecurity in …
Luis Rubio Inequality of opportunity is one of the greatest maladies of Mexico, perhaps the worst of all. The deep-seated notion in the mythology that any Mexican can echo Benito Juárez’s arrival from a remote rural place to the presidential seat of power is clearly false, at least for …
Juan Villoro Prostheses, corrective surgery, and the growing importance of self-perception in defining identity have motivated certain avant-gardists to enter posthuman territory. Trans-species experiences have disproved those who thought that transsexuality was the last physiological frontier. Predictably, some of these innovations have occurred in Barcelona. …
Juan Villoro Espionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a profession that depends on conceiving and manipulating the lives …
Antonio Navalón In the blink of an eye – which for some seemed too little for what was intended to be achieved, and for others, the wait seemed eternal – we have reached the last year of the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Simplifying what is happening in Latin America in political, economic, and social terms leads to a failure to perceive long-term trends. Instead, analyses tend to start from immediate circumstances to extrapolate long-term trends. A first warning is that simplifying trends into “left” …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The country is experiencing an explosion of criminal violence against communities throughout the country and unrestrained official corruption. The two phenomena (criminal violence and official corruption) live concatenated with each other, like soul mates. One protects and feeds the other, and vice …
Luis Rubio Two philosophies of power divide the world: one seeks its concentration to guarantee that the State has full powers to advance equality, while the other seeks its decentralization to ensure citizens’ freedom. The first, originally articulated by Rousseau, is the favorite of governments …
Federico Reyes Heroles The word is beautiful phonetically and beautiful in its meaning: hope. It is a state of mind (of the soul) that arises when what one desires is presented as attainable. In hope, desire loses any hint of fantasy and becomes earthly; it …
