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To War, With A Boy Scout Kit.

The Rise of Organized Crime in Mexico: How Impunity Fuels Violence.

Trumpism and the Dark Enlightenment: A Schizoid Analysis

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Friedman 50 Years Later *

Photo: Britannica.comManuel Suárez Mier Friedman 50 years later.September 13 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Milton Friedman's influential essay, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase...

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Migration: the Pandemic of Hate

Photo: Pixabay on PexelsAntonio NavalónFrom the Book of Books to the other installments that history has given us as if they were a kind of bundles of the Apocalypse,...

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Consequences

Photo: Pelayo Arbués on UnsplashLuis RubioFor every action (force) in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Motion is similarly applicable to physics and...

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Navigating Mexico’s New Lawless Roads *

Photo: Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty on thedailybeast.comManuel Suárez Mier The Lawless Roads was the dyspeptic travelogue that English author Graham Greene wrote in the 1930s of his journey to Mexico...

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Merkel: The Shadow of a Giant

Photo: Armin Linnartz on WikipediaAntonio NavalónYesterday, Germany held general elections. For the first time in 16 years, an election in which a particular name did not appear on the...

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False Dilemmas.

Image: Daniels Joffe on UnsplashLuis RubioAlexander Pope, a XIX-century English poet, penned the phrase "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Mexico's relationship with the United States is,...

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The Change Without End.

Photo: Jimmy Larry on UnsplashAntonio NavalónThe 20th-anniversary commemoration ceremony on September 11 was a very sad event. Not only because of what it evoked, because of the memory of...

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Corruption

Image: Tupungato on iStockLuis RubioWhen he was a comedian on television in Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, garbed in a prison inmate’s uniform,  criticized the corruption of the politicians, accusing them...

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