Truss and AMLO, from one Fiasco to the Next.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce. Liz Truss and AMLO suffer from the syndrome of promoting policies without consensus that clash with real society. They promote programs that sound like political slogans accompanied by commercial jingles but lack any technical, budgetary, or feasibility soundness. Both rulers came to …

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Changes

Luis Rubio “Distance -wrote Samuel Johnson- has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude”. The times change, and …

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Hatred as the Driving Force

Antonio Navalón Since the beginning, since the Light and the Word were made, love and hate have been the elements that have most conditioned interpersonal relationships in the history of humanity. Many times, when one asks what the end result of the marvelous story of …

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The Army is Facing the Abyss

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The hacking of the Army’s servers has put the national spotlight on the military corps and its most important activities, offering an intimate look at its philias and phobias. The hacking is thus an exercise in demystifying an organization previously revered and …

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The Moral Corruption of the State

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce El Rey del Cash (The King of Cash) reveals that we lack compatibility between social morality and the perverse urges for power. This essential flaw explains why this book has raised so much controversy. Knowing the immorality of the ruler when he …

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Sequelae

Luis Rubio Long after the promotors of “great” changes imagine they would, the consequences appear, generally the product of not recognizing that human beings learn and respond in the face of the stimuli presented to them. G.K. Chesterton described the phenomenon with an example: “Don’t …

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The Army Submits the President

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The SEDENALeaks (Secretariat of National Defense or SEDENA) have forced us to rethink how the political system works in our country. Particularly about the role of the Armed Forces in the decision-making cycle between civilian and military authorities. The revelations are not …

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Democracy in Uniform

Antonio Navalón The night of October 4 and the dawn of October 5 made people believe that the six-year term of President López Obrador had come to an end and that the new government, led by the Mexican Armed Forces, was entering to dispose of, …

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The Democratic Time is Getting Shorter

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s recent foreign policy decisions reveal unacceptable alliances with dictatorships. These alignments indicate that Mexico is positioning itself to validate an era of anti-liberal and anti-democratic practices. A government’s foreign policy is also a faithful portrait of its domestic policies. Recently, the …

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After AMLO

Luis Rubio What is it that is left in the wake of a disruptive president whose objective -de facto- has been tearing down instead of building? That is the question that Mexicans should be scrutinizing as the present administration begins its final third. The daily …

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