The Eternal Spain and the Limits to Change

Antonio Navalón Nearly fifty years have passed since the death of the man who fragmented Spain’s democratic stability by imposing a dictatorial regime. Francisco Franco Bahamonde and his dictatorship marked one of the most significant milestones in Spain’s modern history. A democracy cannot be built …

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Adolfo Gilly

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’ candidacy exploded onto the national scene in 1987-1988, an intense debate broke out on the left about what to do in the face of such an unexpected event. Something about his personal characteristics and the historical representation of his …

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Interpretations

Luis Rubio The narrative hides more than it illuminates: its purpose is not to explain the circumstances or argue in favor of this or that proposal but to control the national conversation and strengthen a message whose intention has nothing to do with progress or …

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The discourse of hatred.

Antonio Navalón People. People. People. We are the people. Nothing without the people. Everything with the people. At some point in history, Andrés Manuel López Obrador would change his identity to place a new sign of identity which is the one he chooses, embraces, and …

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In the midst of so much death, life goes on.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Two deaths in the left in one week: Adolfo Gilly and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. Both, each in their own way, left teachings, theses, and paths. Both political militants: Adolfo, a revolutionary, and Porfirio, an institutional revolutionary. That slight difference distanced them, even …

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60/40

Luis Rubio Salim, a Central-African entrepreneur, is a personage who at once attracts and repels: his business prospers, serving up a perspective simultaneously optimistic about his country’s future and tragic in which progress, and the old practices that never disappeared, sow the seeds of the …

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