Photo: ChaNaWiT on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceEduardo 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...
Photo: Lucas icardo Ignacio on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceThe 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...
Image: Wildpixel on iStockLuis 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...
Image: shared on WhatsappManuel 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...
https://youtu.be/K7QBnuF6dHgWorld Science Festival#BrianGreene #Neuroscience #BrainHow does the brain retrieve memories, articulate words, and focus attention? Recent advances have provided a newfound ability to decipher, sharpen, and adjust electrical signals relevant to speech, attention, memory and emotion. Join Brian Greene...
Photo: Annie Spratt on Unsplash Juan VilloroIn 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...
Photo: Jonathan Borba on PexelsAntonio NavalónFor 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,...