Ricardo Pascoe Pierce López Obrador’s government applies a foreign policy full of empty rhetoric and cover-up hypocrisy. Examples abound and are also surprising. And, when discovered, they undermine and degrade Mexico’s credibility in the eyes of friends and foes alike. The world registers Mexico’s deceitful …
Luis Rubio The engine of political liberalization -and of the incipient Mexican democracy- was the succession of electoral reforms that, from the year 1958, but above all in 1996, was experienced by Mexican society. Each of those reforms responded to its own circumstances, but that …
Juan Villoro “Man thinks because he has hands.” Aristotle quoted this attractive phrase of Anaxagoras with the enthusiasm of one who is about to refute it. For the author of Ethics, ideas are not a consequence of what is done with the hands; on the …
Antonio Navalón. 2023 will be a more exciting year than it seems, not only because of what has already happened up to this point and with the preamble of the North American Leaders Summit, but also because between this year and the beginning of the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The recently inaugurated Lula Da Silva government in Brazil is facing the effects of the most pernicious and negative policy of Jair Bolsonaro, his predecessor in the Presidency of his country: the militarization of public administration. Bolsonaro pushed thousands of military cadres …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce There is democratic decay when the justice system is used for political domination. It is a resource employed from political strategies emanating from the political polarization that extends to literally worldwide levels. The significant difference from country to country refers to the …
Luis Rubio Perhaps the best paradox of Mexican politics today lies in that the main promoter of the opposition is the president himself, while it applies itself to wasting every opportunity it encounters. Lost in thought and their own labyrinths, the political parties, and their …
Juan Villoro The rocks surrounding Chiloé Island are inhabited by a unique species of cold. Among them are two varieties of penguins with the surnames of explorers, the Magellanic and the Humboldt. Less well known is the cormorant, or “sea crow”, a dark bird with …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The threat to democracy is a worldwide phenomenon, not only in Mexico. One of the results of the pandemic was the global economic lethargy that has caused democratic systems to be under severe questioning. From the fascist right and totalitarian left, regimes …
Antonio Navalón The North American Leaders’ Summit, held on January 9 and 10, not only marked the beginning of the year in a truly shocking way in terms of politics, economics, forms, and what may or may not happen. This meeting between Biden, López Obrador, …