Military-Police-Soldier killed Angel.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Angel Yael Ignacio Rangel, a student at the University of Guanajuato, was killed by a bullet fired by a ” military-police-soldier”. The homicide provoked protests by students in Guanajuato against the security forces and demanded punishment of the perpetrator. The soldier who …

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Fake Democracy

Luis Rubio Mexicans have become accustomed to living in a world of alternative reality: things are not the way they are, and instead of calling them by their right name, Mexicans sweeten them with pretentious synonyms and euphemisms so they will appear logical and commonplace, …

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Symbols and Reality.

Juan Villoro On September 11, Sebastián Núñez Pérez and José Antonio Sánchez Juárez, members of the Good Government Council of the Caracol “Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde“( Flourishing the Rebel Seed), were on their way to San Cristóbal de Las Casas to see off the Zapatista …

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Kindred Spirits: AMLO and Putin

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce How are the Russian war and Mexico similar? In ideological imposition, the promotion of hatred, and the refusal to dialogue. Of course, that is where the obvious similarities end. Mexico does not face an invading army that destroys its cities, the genocide …

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The Presidential Twilight

Antonio Navalón In Mexico, our leader does not allow himself to be trapped by that vulgarity for the weak, which means that the Law is the Law. It is known by all that in politics, the one who gets angry loses. For many years now, …

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Guarantor?

Luis Rubio The system of separation of powers devised by Montesquieu had the main purpose of protecting the freedoms and rights of the citizenry. The idea was that the three branches of government would strike a balance that would make abuse by any of the …

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Repentance

Juan Villoro Every month, the anthropologist Natalia Mendoza publishes a splendid column in Nexos Magazine in which she analyzes new forms of behavior and the ethical and cultural consequences of contemporary events. In her January 2021 installment, she tackles a decisive but little-mentioned topic in …

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How Mexico Became a Failed State*

Manuel Suárez Mier † *This was originally published on October 23, 2019, by the Asia Times. Author of Asia Times’s wildly popular series “Demolition of Mexico’s economy and democracy” says it’s even worse now: The country has pretty much gone to hell in a handbasket …

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