Luis Rubio How times change! At this stage of the previous presidential term, the political discussion was concentrated on the weakness of the presidency after the end of the PRI era, when the debate was concerned about the excessive power of the presidency. Twenty years …
Antonio Navalón No one will ever be able to accuse President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of lying or not being clear about what he wanted to do in at least two areas. The first – as he has already stated before – is his intention …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The end of the year and the beginning of the new one is a period in national life. A period that represents the fulfillment of the ritual of dates, but it is a transit that, in essence, does not mean any change. …
Luis Rubio People migrate for any number of reasons, and have done so for millennia: climate, the search for opportunities, fear, and insecurity. Sonia Shah* explains that the prototypical migrant tends to be the kind of people who don’t have big bank accounts or landholdings …
Juan Villoro The King of soccer has died in Sao Paulo, in a hospital appropriately named after Albert Einstein, as the death confirms the theory of relativity: the deceased is immortal. For my generation, Pelé represented the grace and elegance of fair play. His movements …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Supreme Court Justice Minister Jazmín Esquivel is the most evident symbol of the essence of the 4T: hypocrisy, corruption, and abuse. And without a drop of dignity. It would be difficult to find another clear example of how the transformation project announced …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO promotes polarization in his every word and deed, sure that it suits him to maintain power. He thinks first of himself and his family and then of the needs of Morena to prolong his stay in power. He is not thinking …
Juan Villoro Sometimes the customs of a famous country are celebrated in another with little resemblance to it and is unlikely to carry them out. I refer, of course, to Christmas, a pagan rite that centuries later became associated with Christianity and later with the …
Luis Rubio Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says, “the True University of these days is a collection of books.” Here is my best attempt to share some of the readings that impacted me the most this year. Two emblematic dictators-Stalin and Hitler- were allies at the beginning …
Marisa Iglesias Shaken since the early hours of Friday morning when I heard about the attempt on his life until now, I have managed to articulate a few words. I know that his death did not happen. I know that armor and providence protected him. …