Contradictions

Luis Rubio The “liar’s paradox” is one of the most amusing logic puzzles: If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In today’s Mexico, lies become truths, corruption is purified, and impunity flourishes, confusing …

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Barbenheimer

Antonio Navalón The capacity for astonishment is one of the most obvious proofs that one is still alive and still sensitive enough to reflect on the facts and circumstances that created our lives. In movie theaters, you can read the abbreviations of the two films …

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Excuses at the end of the road.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador is desperate to find pretexts to justify his failure. He accuses that others, and not him, are the ones really responsible for the narco-trafficking violence. His evasion of responsibility is becoming less credible and more akin to cowardice on …

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Without a drop of joy.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce I remember hearing Alejandro Aura say, “López Obrador governed without a drop of joy”. He was referring, of course, to López Obrador when he was head of government of Mexico City. Alejandro saw an aggressive, opportunistic, and very unempathetic attitude in López …

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(Ab)normality.

Luis Rubio Radicals -of any stripe- tend to perceive themselves as the advanced party of a society that shares their truth and desires a thoroughgoing transformation immediately. But that notion clashes with an obvious truth: most people want nothing but to live normally: work, enjoy …

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The Artificial Democracy

Antonio Navalón Sometimes, life surprises us, shows us different ways of looking at things, and forces us to modify the perspective under which problems are examined. Last weekend, the World Law Congress was held at the prestigious New York Bar Association. The event was attended …

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AMLO’s Strategy

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce His actions and public words make it easy to make out AMLO’s strategy for the 2024 elections. And also how he changes his route as things happen that he did not anticipate. Until a month ago, AMLO enjoyed a certainty: if the …

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Unity?

Luis Rubio The brew is complicated in itself: an unsatisfied electorate, a culture hardly prone to reaching compromises and considering the rights of others, and a tradition devoted to dividing rather than adding up. The past years have displayed the best and the worst of …

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No Answer

Juan Villoro Digital communication is so effective that we have the luxury of not using it. Faced with the possibility of responding at any time, the message is postponed until it is forgotten. Being able to chat at all hours allows us to do so …

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