Photo: Lalo Hernández on UnsplashFederico Reyes HerolesFrenzied is perhaps the word: exalted, agitated, excited, hectic, mad... crazy, the Academy tells us. Frenzy is what sailors call a marvelous and cruel spectacle simultaneously. Some minor species in great abundance, perhaps...
Image: Peshkov on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceMarcelo Ebrard has forgotten Karl Marx's basic premise: economic policy moves the world. Everything political is also economic. Historical materialism is based on that foundational premise. That is the ideological basis of his party.Image:...
Photo: on english.elpais.com Riccardo Pascoe PierceThe sudden extraction of Mayo Zambada from Mexico has triggered a crisis in the political transition led by AMLO. What was once a smooth and controlled process has now become a transition fraught with...
Image: Sumandak on ShutterstockLuis RubioAs the saying goes, after an intemperate night before comes the morning after. A less amiable way to observe the current government is to recall Louis XV when he stated, “Après moi le déluge.” Soon,...
Photo: Omar Alnahi on PexelsFederico Reyes HerolesTo Norma Mereles, for her kind firmness.Is national pride something desirable? Of course, not so the dangerous nationalisms that invent identities and hatreds. But that healthy pride must be based on facts. That...
Image: AI-generated using Shutterstock‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the...
Imagen: Generada con Inteligencia Artificial Usando Shutterstock"Se han probado y se probarán muchas formas de gobierno en este mundo de pecado y aflicción. Nadie pretende que la democracia sea perfecta o sabia. De hecho, se ha dicho que la...