Antonio Navalón We are already well into the year 2023. A year prior to the Mexican presidential elections and in which, everyone is already showing what they are made of and what they really want. This is the first time that when we go to …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce “President Daniel Ortega is a man full of much rage, much hatred” said Dora Maria Tellez, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla known as Comandante Dos for her role in the struggle against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. Tellez was recently released from prison …
Juan Villoro In 1946, automotive engineer Louis Réard presented an invention capable of stopping traffic: the bikini. The two-piece garment was named after the atoll where the first atomic bombs exploded. Twenty years later, the explosive garment was appearing on magazine covers, fashion runways, movies, …
Luis Rubio It never was going to be easy for President López Obrador. His rhetoric, obsessions, and resentments entailed a permanent source of conflict, thus of polarization and feuding. Winning an election in those terms implied always rowing against the current. How, under those circumstances, …
Antonio Navalón Last Tuesday, February 7, the constitutional President of the United States of America gave his second State of the Union address. With Joe Biden, something very peculiar happens; it is evident that, either because of the passage of time or because of the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce In view of the ominous presence of the high command of the Cuban dictatorship in Mexico, and the sweet words of affection and congratulations expressed by the Mexican President, it is necessary to take a break to evaluate what is being celebrated. …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce With his aspiration to be the leader of the Latin America left dead, AMLO resigns himself to being the godfather of dictatorships: Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Today he parades with the Cuban President, exalting a non-existent “revolution”, and is silent in the …
Luis Rubio “Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push —in just the right place— it can be tipped.” This is the way that Malcolm Gladwell explains how things change, frequently and suddenly and …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The British magazine The Economist published its Global Democracy Index 2022. The Index highlighted several important findings for those promoting democratic aspirations worldwide. And also lessons for those who promote authoritarianism in their various countries. The study reveals that nearly half of …
Antonio Navalón In the history of mankind, there have been many times in which seeking justice, holding a trial seeking to establish the truth, has been insufficient, improbable, or simply the elements to justify the mechanisms that guarantee its attainment have been lost. The trial …