“If we don’t Defend the Earth…”

The piece reflects on the importance of caring for celestial bodies if we fail to protect Earth. It emphasizes the moon, Mars, Venus, and the Big Dipper, advocating for their preservation against pollution and conflict. The message serves as a tribute to Arturo Gonzalez Cosio, celebrating his vision on Earth Day 2022.

Repentance

Juan Villoro Every month, the anthropologist Natalia Mendoza publishes a splendid column in Nexos Magazine in which she analyzes new forms of behavior and the ethical and cultural consequences of contemporary events. In her January 2021 installment, she tackles a decisive but little-mentioned topic in …

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How Mexico Became a Failed State*

Manuel Suárez Mier † *This was originally published on October 23, 2019, by the Asia Times. Author of Asia Times’s wildly popular series “Demolition of Mexico’s economy and democracy” says it’s even worse now: The country has pretty much gone to hell in a handbasket …

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The Open Veins of Mexico

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Eduardo Galeano published his classic book The Open Veins of Latin America in 1971. The text was immediately taken as a sacred reference for the Latin American left. It is a rebuke of foreign powers’ constant plundering of the region’s natural resources. …

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The Recall and the Dangers for 2024

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The recall was the rehearsal where AMLO tested how much resistance would be against fraud in 2024. The illegalities were so many and so prodigious that he, his cabinet, and the entire Morena party were seeking to normalize the phenomenon of violations …

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Disruptions

Luis Rubio The agricultural worker at the end of the XVIII century was suddenly displaced by the appearance of the steam engine that substituted for, says Gertrude Himmelfarb,* an average of 50 employees in one fell swoop. It took between twenty and thirty years before …

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Caring for the Rose

Juan Villoro In 1991, Umberto Eco gave a lecture at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense under the suggestive title “The vegetable memory”. He recalled that the first forms of writing were mineral: stone friezes and clay tablets. The e-book also belongs to the mineral order since …

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So close to God and so Far from the USA

Antonio Navalón For two hundred years, when popular wisdom spoke of Mexico’s intrinsic and genetic misfortunes, people said, “poor Mexico, so close to the United States and so far from God”. Thanks to Andrés Manuel López, that has changed. He, a believer who speaks of …

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