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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...

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AMLO’s Mexico Downgraded, Part II.

Image: Gearstd on iStock"In politics, civilities are substance" Attributed to Jesús Reyes HerolesOn June 8 of last year, we published a note titled "AMLO's Mexico Downgraded." The subtitle was...

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Free America.

Image: Luchschen on iStockAntonio NavalónSince the 12th of October 1492, when Christopher Columbus heard the word "Tierra" and began to see the outlines of the island of Guanahaní -...

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What’s up with the Revocation?

Photo: Ahmed Zayan on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceFirst things first: will the recall exercise take place or not? There have been, and continue to be, big dark clouds over the...