Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Every budget reveals priorities and concerns; it conceals errors and keeps the skeletons hidden in the closet. Such is the budget for the year 2024 that the Chamber of Deputies has just approved. The fact that the Morenista, Green, and PT majorities …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On the day López Obrador received his investiture as constitutional President of Mexico on December 1, 2018, in the Congress of the Union, he went to Mexico City’s Zócalo to receive a baton from Carmen Santiago Alonso, representative of 68 indigenous peoples …
Luis Rubio Antinomy, a contradiction between two things, both apparently obtained by correct reasoning, such as laws or principles, describes the dilemma of Mexico well, but one which has been systematically sidestepped as if it were not to exist. Instead of facing the problem of …
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist and president of Eurasia Group, joins us to discuss the historical and political context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this conversation, Bremmer and our editor-in-chief, Robert Chapman-Smith, explore the current dynamics between Israel and Palestine, particularly during Israeli Prime Minister …
“I don’t believe in the ‘soft landing’ story,” said historian and author Niall Ferguson in a conversation with Andy Serwer at Barrons on Sept. 12, 2023. He discusses the risks to the West, U.S. politics, what happens if Trump wins, what if he was a …
Antonio Navalón If When the Berlin Wall fell, the book that best reflected this episode of history was Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History and the Last Man”. After the Hamas attack on Israel that began on October 7, the title that best defines this …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Finding parallels between leaders because they prioritize their personal-political interests over the national interest always gives clues about the levels of violence in their countries. They face challenges of rampant violence when they lead their governments but prefer to provide political solutions …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The devastation caused to the coast of Guerrero, to 45 municipalities, and with Acapulco at its epicenter, goes beyond the unimaginable. There are scenes of destruction, collapse, and incredible fragility of structures, buildings, foliage, trees, and even hills and mountains. Everything was …
Angel Jaramillo. Between 1989 and 2023, Islamic radicalism has been exacerbated. Four thinkers have offered different explanations for the causes of this phenomenon. Three dates are significant in understanding the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7. First, Ayatollah Khomeini condemned Salman Rushdie on February …
