Don’t Give Me That…

Luis Rubio “Don’t give me that the law is the law,” said President López Obrador. In this, his approach does not constitute a break with the reality of Mexico’s recent past, except that the president does not express the minimal unease concerning the law being …

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The Flower of the Neighborhood

Juan Villoro In childhood, you adopt pets that you will not take care of. A rabbit, a goose, or even a water snake awaken in you, enthusiasms that will disappear with the obligations of feeding these species and keeping their habitat clean. Only in adulthood …

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Op-Ed: Destroying Mexico (Part III of III)

José Antonio Polo Oteyza Two stories in one: the connection and good intentions. The Trinitarian saints. In the maelstrom, the foundational myth of the supposed “connection” with the people was so spontaneous that it took two decades, and billions, and promises of everything and for …

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Op-Ed: Destroying Mexico (Part II of III)

José Antonio Polo Oteyza The Armed Forces as a political threat. A requiem Now, the chaos provoked by this inept premeditation raises the need -in fact, as never before- for a principle of armed order, and, since the government is finite, institutional dismantling is also …

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