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Sleeping is Tiring

Photo: Pixabay on PexelsJuan VilloroHow many hours should a person sleep? The enigma, of course, is unfathomable. Napoleon would close his eyes in two batches of a couple of...

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Ukraine and Cuba: Hostage States

Photo: Cyano66 on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceUkraine and Cuba have something in common, defined by their geographic location and internal politics. They are hostage states because of their geographies and...

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Without Firing a Single Shot

Photo: Pixabay on Pexels Antonio NavalónModels become exhausted. Empires collapse—everything changes. As if we didn't have enough with hyperinflation or what the Covid-19 pandemic has meant, the world has...

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The End of the Mirage

Photo: Mohamed Nohassi on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceWhen President López Obrador explained the reasons that led him to fire Rogelio Jiménez Pons as the person in charge of the Mayan...

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The Gamble

Photo: Akshay Anand on PexelsLuis Rubio“The curse of man, and the cause of his worst woes, wrote HL Mencken, is his stupendous capability for believing the incredible. He is...

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Putin the Great.

Photo: Sergei Bobylev/TASS on tass.comAntonio NavalónI have had a weakness and intellectual curiosity for the Russian soul for many years now. To find people so sentimental and violent at...

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A Dangerous Fantasy

Image: historyextra.comRicardo Pascoe PiercePresident López Obrador lives obsessed with a dangerous fantasy, which leads him to govern with daring and destructive actions. It is as if he has a...

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The Past.

Photo: Edgar Moran on Unsplash Luis Rubio1982 was a watershed in Mexican political life. For one part of society, that year's financial crisis constituted an unequivocal sign of the...