Antonio Navalón We live in times of confusion and, in many ways, of scoundrels. It is one thing to abuse and makes true the old maxim that power always corrupts and another thing to destroy, not change, the legal order under which coexistence is possible …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The trade representatives of the United States and Mexico had a surly meeting, to say the least. The Mexican side reported nothing of what was discussed, although it acknowledged that the meeting took place in Washington. The US side, true to its …
Luis Rubio In “The Seventh Seal”, a 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman, a knight returns from the Crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. Suffering and devastation had shaken his faith in God. When Death comes for him, the crusader proposes a game of chess to …
Antonio Navalón It is striking that in the history of Mexico – even before the Conquest – it is the impossible dream that almost always explains how events unfolded and, above all, why we constantly set out and analyze what remains after failure. If one …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO is overwhelmed by what it means to lose the presidency: he will have to render accounts that are impossible to explain. The time comes for every state leader when he must explain how he spent the money that society entrusted him …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Brazilian candidate to head the Inter-American Development Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, won the leadership in an election that pitted two Latin American giants, Mexico and Brazil, against each other. Goldfajn won the election with 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The reasons for the Mexican revolution are under siege by the misnamed Mexican left. The most relevant result of the revolution – the Constitution – is one step away from becoming a dead letter because of the actions of López Obrador and …
Luis Rubio “Cultures notoriously differ as to the content of their rules, but there is no culture without rules.” In the last half-century, Mexico was propelled from a world of rules established from the helm of power and for the power -the important ones always …
