Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Eduardo Galeano published his classic book The Open Veins of Latin America in 1971. The text was immediately taken as a sacred reference for the Latin American left. It is a rebuke of foreign powers’ constant plundering of the region’s natural resources. …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The recall was the rehearsal where AMLO tested how much resistance would be against fraud in 2024. The illegalities were so many and so prodigious that he, his cabinet, and the entire Morena party were seeking to normalize the phenomenon of violations …
Luis Rubio The agricultural worker at the end of the XVIII century was suddenly displaced by the appearance of the steam engine that substituted for, says Gertrude Himmelfarb,* an average of 50 employees in one fell swoop. It took between twenty and thirty years before …
Manuel Suárez Mier † *This was originally published on May 29, 2019, by the Asia Times. This is the first of a two-part series on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first six months in office. Just as the new president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel …
Juan Villoro In 1991, Umberto Eco gave a lecture at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense under the suggestive title “The vegetable memory”. He recalled that the first forms of writing were mineral: stone friezes and clay tablets. The e-book also belongs to the mineral order since …
Antonio Navalón For two hundred years, when popular wisdom spoke of Mexico’s intrinsic and genetic misfortunes, people said, “poor Mexico, so close to the United States and so far from God”. Thanks to Andrés Manuel López, that has changed. He, a believer who speaks of …
Luis Rubio The similarity between debates on the future is surprising in the United States and Mexico. Very distinct societies, they are confronting situations that are not entirely different, but their circumstances are indeed radically so, which permits contrasts and learnings that have no equal. …
Ana María Salazar With everything that has happened in the last two weeks with the recall referendum, we can now be sure that López Obrador believes he has no limits. It does not matter if they promote citizen participation as ‘revocation of the mandate’ or …
Antonio Navalón Today, with so much technology, dependence, and people so little accustomed to suffering and with so little pride in themselves, what awaits us is that the strongest can strike. And that it will do so without even taking out weapons, but simply threatening …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Welcome to our ranks, Comrade General Rodriguez Bucio! The government is celebrating that from his position as head of the National Guard, the General’s presence will be of the utmost importance in the President’s effort not to feel alone. The control over …