Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When a government feels cornered, it contemplates a coup d’état as its only salvation. It is nothing new. The drama of Latin America is filled with the actions of governments that have resorted to desperate decisions to “save themselves”. These coups considerations …
Luis Rubio The problem with fires is that they can blow in any direction -and one can get burned. However, that seems to be the frame of mind of the government today. The presidential term advances within a global environment over which the president has …
Juan Villoro “I wasn’t like that; the gadgets changed me,” confesses a friend. Indeed, twenty years ago, we were all not only younger but different. Technology provides experiences that once seemed contradictory, if not impossible. One of these is “remote intimacy”. There is much talk …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Putin made the mistake of thinking that he would get Ukraine to turn its gaze towards Russia and forget about the West by massing troops on the Ukrainian border. In his gamble, he considered that he had more time to pressure the …
Luis Rubio Mexico has undergone an underlying, albeit hidden, discord about its future for various decades. From a positive quasi-consensus -at least more or less generalized enthusiasm- concerning the future that was born with the liberalization of the economy and, especially, with the successful negotiation …
Juan Villoro How many hours should a person sleep? The enigma, of course, is unfathomable. Napoleon would close his eyes in two batches of a couple of hours and awaken with enough stamina to invade Egypt. On the other hand, Einstein proved that work is …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukraine and Cuba have something in common, defined by their geographic location and internal politics. They are hostage states because of their geographies and national circumstances. In a world of recurring conflicts between superpowers, being the “near neighbor” to either means geopolitical …
Antonio Navalón Models become exhausted. Empires collapse—everything changes. As if we didn’t have enough with hyperinflation or what the Covid-19 pandemic has meant, the world has been holding its breath again in the last few weeks. The word “war” has appeared again as something probable …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When President López Obrador explained the reasons that led him to fire Rogelio Jiménez Pons as the person in charge of the Mayan Train project, he bluntly stated: “…. above all is the higher interest, the interest of the people and the …
Luis Rubio “The curse of man, and the cause of his worst woes, wrote HL Mencken, is his stupendous capability for believing the incredible. He is forever embracing delusions, and each new one is more preposterous than all that has gone before.” That’s what Mexican …