Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Everything is ready for the September 16 show: the National Guard will be presented as part of the Army. In the Chamber of Deputies, Morena approved, fast-track and without discussion, the administrative reform that turns the National Guard, a civilian police force …
Luis Rubio In solidarity with José Sarukhán The preposterous is everywhere. Some indulge their preferences rather than embrace reality. As happened to Kafka in the village of Zürau, where he wrote about the teeming mice in his sanatorium’s surroundings. He speculated on the urgency of …
Juan Villoro In 2009, before the Champions League final, Pep Guardiola had his players watch scenes from the movie Gladiator to motivate them. They were playing in Rome. Barça triumphed in a coliseum reminiscent of the enslaved Athletics of another time. In August 2020, Messi …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Since the beginning of his administration, López Obrador has insisted that he applies the classic interpretation of the Estrada Doctrine as the guiding axis of his foreign policy. He has repeatedly said that the best foreign policy is domestic policy. But as …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The organization Prisoners Defenders revealed that 500 Cuban military personnel recently entered Mexico. This was related to one of them who lived through the process. He said that they entered the country through Mexican military air bases without being registered by immigration …
Antonio Navalón We live in an era in which the deluge of changes has provoked a flood and disruption of everything we thought we knew and understood. When a century from now, what has happened during this era is analyzed, it will surely come to …
Luis Rubio It is unclear whether they were betting on civilization, submission, or simply that material satisfaction would resolve other human aspirations, such as progressing, improving, or participating in politics. The tangible fact is that Mexican governments, from the sixties onwards, have been betting that …
Juan Villoro There were times when people relied on myths and cosmogonies to explain the budding of a flower or a person’s character. Superstition and religions reassure without needing to be proven. In this context, harmony depends on not passing salt from hand to hand …
Cristóbal Trasmiera The creation of the National Revolutionary Party in 1929 consummated the triumph of the Mexican Revolution. It was a recognition on the part of the military leaders -who had control of their territories-of the rules of access to power after the chaos of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce All military doctrines, whatever the country, agree on a central thesis. They go something like this: In the face of aggression, its duty is to respond with the lethal force necessary to eliminate the present danger. The “present danger” is eliminated with …