Ricardo Pascoe Pierce This week the Mexican President reiterated what he has said: he will violate the law when, in his judgment, he must defend the poor. This approach makes the President violate constitutional precepts daily, starting with his morning press conference (Mañanera). By attacking …
Luis Rubio The great success of President López Obrador is not to be found in an exceptional strategy or ability but in his having discovered an amorphous and untapped electorate that did not feel represented. His mastery of communicating with that part of the population …
Antonio Navalón The story of this year, 2023, began on the shoulders of tanks. On February 24 last year, there was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and from there, naturally, we enter a scenario in which we have to combine, first, how the Russians feel …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The reflection of the times. On June 19, 1982, Mexico City’s Zócalo (Mexico City’s main square) witnessed the first independent mobilization in its history. The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) occupied the space to celebrate Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo’s candidacy for the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce López Obrador’s government applies a foreign policy full of empty rhetoric and cover-up hypocrisy. Examples abound and are also surprising. And, when discovered, they undermine and degrade Mexico’s credibility in the eyes of friends and foes alike. The world registers Mexico’s deceitful …
Luis Rubio The engine of political liberalization -and of the incipient Mexican democracy- was the succession of electoral reforms that, from the year 1958, but above all in 1996, was experienced by Mexican society. Each of those reforms responded to its own circumstances, but that …
Juan Villoro “Man thinks because he has hands.” Aristotle quoted this attractive phrase of Anaxagoras with the enthusiasm of one who is about to refute it. For the author of Ethics, ideas are not a consequence of what is done with the hands; on the …
Antonio Navalón. 2023 will be a more exciting year than it seems, not only because of what has already happened up to this point and with the preamble of the North American Leaders Summit, but also because between this year and the beginning of the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The recently inaugurated Lula Da Silva government in Brazil is facing the effects of the most pernicious and negative policy of Jair Bolsonaro, his predecessor in the Presidency of his country: the militarization of public administration. Bolsonaro pushed thousands of military cadres …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce There is democratic decay when the justice system is used for political domination. It is a resource employed from political strategies emanating from the political polarization that extends to literally worldwide levels. The significant difference from country to country refers to the …