Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The WHO estimates that 626,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Mexico, in contrast to the 324,334 corresponding to the government’s count. There is a difference of 301,666 people dead between the WHO estimate and the Mexican government’s. Is the figure irrelevant? …
The fight against inflation has become the main issue for all central banks except China. During the pandemic, most countries (except Mexico, one of those that did not) lowered their interest rates to zero or even negative and established a policy of high liquidity to …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The only significant announcement that President López Obrador made about his conversation with President Biden last Friday was that it was agreed that the Mexican Foreign Minister would go to Washington the following Monday. The other comments were ambiguities common to his …
Antonio Navalón Today, we live in a world that is not only convulsed and confused but also highly ideologized. In part, this is because the ideological struggle allows and endures everything. For example, if you want to kill children and civilians and destroy the cultural …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …