North America
Complicit neutrality How do you feel, Pepe Mújica?
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukraine, promptly and without hesitation, responded to AMLO: your plan for a truce in the Russian-Ukrainian war is a ploy to support Russia. You are a phony President who is only looking for public relations spotlights. Ukraine, in a tweet, unmasks López …
US Inflation Tops Forecasts
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Presidential Confessions.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Two confessions from President López Obrador in one week, each more fantastic than the other. And in the same week, as if they were an ill-timed justification to explain his decision to establish a political-commercial alliance with the Armed Forces, illegally transferring …
Mexico Militarizes, But to What End?
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Mexico is getting armed, but it is unclear if it is to fight crime or control the opposition. It is clear, however, that integrating the National Guard into the Army is an act agreed upon between the Defense and the Executive. What …
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 …
AMLO implements a Civilian-Military Regime in Mexico.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Everything is ready for the September 16 show: the National Guard will be presented as part of the Army. In the Chamber of Deputies, Morena approved, fast-track and without discussion, the administrative reform that turns the National Guard, a civilian police force …
Divergences.
Luis Rubio In solidarity with José Sarukhán The preposterous is everywhere. Some indulge their preferences rather than embrace reality. As happened to Kafka in the village of Zürau, where he wrote about the teeming mice in his sanatorium’s surroundings. He speculated on the urgency of …
Monetary Policy and Price Stability
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AMLO’s Interventionism.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Since the beginning of his administration, López Obrador has insisted that he applies the classic interpretation of the Estrada Doctrine as the guiding axis of his foreign policy. He has repeatedly said that the best foreign policy is domestic policy. But as …