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Coercion

Photo: Alycia Fung on PexelsLuis Rubio“The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak,” affirms Eric Berkowitz* in an extraordinary study on censorship. For nearly...

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Who is in Charge in Mexico?

Image: Pixabay on Pexels        An enraged mob attacks a military garrison; the soldiers surrender and hand over their weapons and the military installation to the aggressors. In another part...

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Pettiness or Greatness

Image: Gearstd on iStockLuis RubioThe dearth of statesmen in the world, argued Napoleon, is due to the complexity inherent in the function: “to get the power you need to...

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The Republic of Words

Image: Diccionario Náhuatl on Kanakue.comAntonio NavalónSince the time of Ronald Reagan, Ambassador John Gavin made the everlasting theme of drug trafficking fashionable, of the corruption that surrounded it, of...

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Mexico’s demolition derby: new areas to obliterate

Photo: Issy Bailey on UnsplashManuel Suárez-MierAfter President AMLO's party does relatively well in midterm elections, the country's woes continue.The midterm elections of June 6 in Mexico were in appearance...

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To Govern

Photo: Benjamín Flores on Proceso.com.mxLuis RubioThe art of governing, says David Konzevik, is the art of managing the gap between the expectations that the citizenry entertains and the day-to-day...

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About the Reforms

Image: Evgeny Gromov on iStockLuis RubioAn old proverb has it that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Something like this happened to Mexico when successive electoral...

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