Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Tomorrow, 14 December, the Senate of the Republic’s commissions will begin deliberations on the already questioned “Plan B” for reforming the structure, responsibilities, and powers of the National Electoral Institute (INE). It is not an electoral reform, strictly speaking. It is, instead, …
Antonio Navalón There is a tendency to value failure that I have often wondered whether it is not the reaction to the sublimation of the triumph and victory that the American world has put in front of us. Pedro Castillo is no longer President of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When intelligence and dialogue are lacking, verbal political polarization often turns into physical violence. This is seen time and again in societies around the world. And their dynamics are very similar, albeit in very different contexts. Polarization and violence occur when societies …
Luis Rubio The central characteristic of our time would seem to be the tensions that generate real or perceived inequalities in the distribution of the benefits of economic growth. Countless nations around the world have elected leaders whose calling card has been the rejection of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Some time ago, the President said, in the heat of a morning press conference “mañanera“, that the electoral roll should be under the control of the Ministry of the Interior. It was a comment, like many of those made by the President …
Antonio Navalón We live in times of confusion and, in many ways, of scoundrels. It is one thing to abuse and makes true the old maxim that power always corrupts and another thing to destroy, not change, the legal order under which coexistence is possible …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The trade representatives of the United States and Mexico had a surly meeting, to say the least. The Mexican side reported nothing of what was discussed, although it acknowledged that the meeting took place in Washington. The US side, true to its …
Luis Rubio In “The Seventh Seal”, a 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman, a knight returns from the Crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. Suffering and devastation had shaken his faith in God. When Death comes for him, the crusader proposes a game of chess to …
Antonio Navalón It is striking that in the history of Mexico – even before the Conquest – it is the impossible dream that almost always explains how events unfolded and, above all, why we constantly set out and analyze what remains after failure. If one …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …