Extremisms.

Luis Rubio “Great cases [before de Supreme Court] like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not because of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the …

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The Kingdom of this World.

In his masterpiece, whose title is borrowed for this piece, Alejo Carpentier distinguishes the difference between magical thinking and the marvelous real -not to be confused with García Márquez’s magical realism-. Writes Carpentier:  “But it is that many forget, by disguising themselves as magicians and …

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The President and the Ambassador

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce National scenarios are highly unstable because political narratives change rapidly. One example is Ambassador Salazar’s change of narrative with President Lopez Obrador. He abruptly changed the diplomatic game between the two countries by commenting on the need to prioritize the fight against …

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