Luis Rubio Ideological coherence or political pragmatism: the eternal dilemma of alliances. These last as long as their members continue to find greater benefits in participating and remaining in them than in denouncing them and breaking away. From Marxist theoreticians to the most seasoned political …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The temporary nature of his power is beginning to anguish him. Entering the second, and last, three years of his six-year term, with so few tangible results and so much left to do, has caused him to try to exaggerate his progress …
Antonio Navalón When Winston Churchill decided to write his memoirs – he must have been about three years old, given the sense of significance he had since he was a child and the conviction that he would make history – he decided to title the …
Photo: Alex Shanless on Pexels Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Listening to the President of Mexico speak, in these Christmas times, of Christian repentance, of Jesus Christ, humility, peace, and banishing hatred, it is impossible not to think of Milton and Cuba’s Paradise Lost and their empty speeches. In 1667 the English poet John Milton published his …
Luis Rubio The pandemic has ended, but its aftereffects are visible everywhere. An epidemic, Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906, is “a disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices.” Indeed, science responded with medicines that helped alleviate the symptoms of those who fell ill. At …
Juan Villoro I have lived long enough to attend the weddings of a friend who refers to the most recent one as his “fourth transformation.” A journalist colleague commented that these marriages should not be mentioned in the Social section but the Sports section. Dr. …
Photo: Gorodenkoff on iStock Luis Rubio Every year brings surprises and opportunities, but some can leave us speechless in the face of what happened. In March 2020, all the inhabitants of the planet found us before an unknown world: fear and seclusion due to the risk implied by a pandemic, a phenomenon that, with local …
Manuel Suárez Mier On the lobbying in the United States by Mexican society to stop the destructive excesses of the mind-boggling leader of its government and the peculiar political situation in which the US finds itself. As I reviewed last week, more and more Mexicans …
Antonio Navalón For a long time in China, there was an element of bewilderment that contaminated world communism. Mao Zedong, the great helmsman, the absolute leader of the Chinese revolution, decided that it was not only possible to criticize, but that it was desirable that …
Luis Rubio The year 2021 has been quite strange. It began with nearly exponential growth in the number of contagions and ended with a downward trend. While other nations acted to quell the pandemic with perfectly structured vaccination programs, such as those that Mexico accomplished …