The month just ended was characterized by mixed signals, both in the global economies and in the political controversy created by leftward movements in most countries, the departure in Germany of Angela Merkel, and paralysis in the U.S. Congress. Before getting into details and as …
The US asylum rule “Remain in Mexico” requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico instead of the U.S. while their claims are resolved. This policy is subject to debate in court as the Biden administration terminated it, and Texas and Missouri sued demanding it to …
Antonio Navalón The century in which most of us were born, by us I mean those who share this space with me through your reading – for which I am grateful -, was a century that began characterized by a continuous dance of frontiers. It …
Recovery During a Pandemic, Health Concerns, Supply Disruptions, and Price Pressures The global recovery continues but the momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the recorded global COVID-19 death toll has risen close to 5 million and health …
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime The Global Organized Crime Index is the first tool of its kind designed to assesslevels of organized crime and resilience to organized criminal activity. It includes inits rankings all the UN member states – 193 countries.The results, which draw …
Antonio Navalón From the Book of Books to the other installments that history has given us as if they were a kind of bundles of the Apocalypse, it is written that there are times when crises are triggered and behave in such a way that …
Image: Tupungato on iStock Luis Rubio When he was a comedian on television in Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, garbed in a prison inmate’s uniform, criticized the corruption of the politicians, accusing them of being atheists and not being able to imagine a better life than that deriving from the reigning corruption. Three years later, as President …
Image: Chinnapong on iStock Juan Villoro 2020 ended submerged in the pandemic. The only thing we can hope for in the uncertain future is that it drifts away from the present. We are in parentheses, something new for a world that was defined by rush, instant gratification, traveling everywhere until recently. Nobody educated us to …
