Antonio Navalón A few years after the end of the Cristero War in Mexico, an English writer named Graham Greene documented how we Mexicans did justice among ourselves. His book “The Power and the Glory” alludes to the atmosphere in our country in the 1920s …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO invited the countries closest to his heart to the September 16, 2023, military parade. All are ruled by dictatorships: Russia, China, Cuba and Nicaragua. Instead of being a parade commemorating a heroic deed in our national life, the president transformed the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The celebration of Mexico’s Independence Day in 2023 was the staging of the deep sectarianism that defines the government of President López Obrador. By prioritizing the exclusion of the representatives of the other branches of the Mexican State, both Legislative and Judicial …
Juan Villoro Fact: Passion weighs three kilos. I have the evidence provided by passion itself. In 1964, Spain played the final of the European Cup of Nations against the Soviet Union. I was eight years old, and my world was worth thanks to soccer. I …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Fifty years ago tomorrow, General Pinochet and almost the entire Chilean military broke their constitutional oath and staged a coup d’état against the legally elected government of Salvador Allende. The few military commanders who opposed the coup were eliminated. Thus, Chile aligned …
Antonio Navalón On a day like today, 50 years ago, the great Chilean dream came to an end. On the morning of September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende – a doctor by profession, winner of the leftist and Marxist candidacy of the Popular Unity party, …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Xóchitl Gálvez came to revolutionize the political and intellectual life of the country. She revolutionized politics because the opposition acquired a new fighting spirit, cohesion, and purpose, besides having real possibilities of winning the presidency in the next elections. And it revolutionized …
Luis Rubio While the candidacies advance, the political risks increase. Three factors drive the possibility of the country having to confront critical situations during the following year. The first is the most obvious of these: the presidential cycle, everywhere in the world, follows a natural …
Antonio Navalón After reading and analyzing Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “Leadership”, which he has just published at the age of 100, I have discovered something important and worth noting. At this point in civilization, there is almost nothing new under the sun, and generally, the …
