The Costs.

Luis Rubio In the early nineties, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Enrique Krauze explored the implications of those events on Latin American countries, concluding that the last Stalinist would not die in the USSR but rather in a university cubicle in Latin America. …

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Two presidents and one mañanera

Antonio Navalón It is written in the history and practice of human relations and world survival that – as Charles Darwin explained in his time – there is a law of natural selection of species in which only the strongest, the best prepared, and the …

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How to constrain AMLO?

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce There is a discussion among opposing forces of different signs on how to limit or manage López Obrador politically. The debate concerns how to counteract his populist discourse when populism is advancing worldwide, threatening democratic liberalism. More recently, the discussion revolves around …

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It is all about violence.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Violence in Mexico permeates every interstice of Mexican society. Nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes it. From the highest to the lowest. From all activities and professions to the most remote and humble chores. All of Mexico bears the stamp of violence. In Argentina, …

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Government for what?

Luis Rubio “The stability of a democracy depends very much on the people making a careful distinction between what a government can and cannot do,” stated the academician, diplomat, and politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Seeking what it cannot achieve implies “creating the conditions for frustration …

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The Invisibles

Juan Villoro The only genre that is still handwritten is the medical prescription. Although it lacks literary value, it represents a work of authorship since it depends on the signature and the authority behind it. Among its many merits, Medicine has managed to keep the …

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The Countdown

Antonio Navalón It was like an illumination. On the afternoon of June 4, President López Obrador saw his vision for the future of Mexico become clearer. The next step he had to take was to seek to consolidate and give continuity to what he had …

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Nothing lasts forever

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The “campaigns” of the corcholatas (a derogatory term applied from the presidential subconscious to his potential successors) coincide in time and form: they do not postulate anything other than what AMLO says in his mañaneras. They assume that they are doomed to …

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The opposition is moving forward

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Recent gains by the opposition have entirely changed the prognosis for next year’s elections. The story of how this change has happened is for future analysis. But today, it is necessary to remember some of its ingredients because they are still active …

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