Marcelo, mon amour

Antonio Navalón The middle class cast approximately half the thirty million votes in 2018. The upper middle class and the upper class, those with an instinct for self-preservation and a certain ethical sense, were disgusted to live in a kleptocracy such as the one at …

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More of the same?

Luis Rubio According to Simon Kuznets, the world has four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina. Argentina has been defying gravity for decades, in fact, almost a century. With small moments of euphoria, its economy has gone from bad to worse for so …

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“All the better to eat you with!”

Juan Villoro How tasty are we? Some people lack salt, and others stimulate all the senses. Love is whimsical. No one understood it better than Italo Calvino, whose centenary is celebrated these days. His most fruitful reflections on food and passion occurred precisely in Mexico. …

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Argentina marks a turning point.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Argentina repudiated Peronism, Kirchnerism, leftism, and the populist rhetoric accompanying those governments for over two decades. During that time, it has received political support from Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, Lula Da Silva, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The economic management has been …

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Uncertainties

Luis Rubio When one reads Kafka’s novels –The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis – there is no way to avoid the sensation of confusion and fascination as one goes through those labyrinths of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, irony, and the ever-present lacerating humor. Whoever looks through the pages of the …

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John Mearsheimer on Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and World War III.

John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago. He is one of the world’s most influential and controversial thinkers on the topics of war and power. OUTLINE: 1:29 – Power 24:43 – Hitler 42:09 – Russia and Ukraine 1:38:22 – Israel …

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The Risk and the Opportunity

Luis Rubio The 2024 presidential election promises to be like no other since Mexico began its long, painful, and unfinished transition to democracy. Three factors make this a unique moment: an economy ever more distant from the political cycle, a political structure susceptible to collapse, …

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Spain: The Price of Power

Antonio Navalón There is global unanimity that the 21st century, which has brought and contributed so much to the history of the modern world, has also witnessed an enormous depreciation in the quality of the political ruling class. This is not a problem that only …

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