Luis Rubio The objectives that defined the agenda and electoral proposal of now President López Obrador are THE problems of Mexico: poverty, corruption, inequality, and insufficient growth. The strategies to defeat these wrongs can be argued, but no one can dispute their transcendence in today’s …
Antonio Navalón January 6, the day that for our culture and civilization represents the day of the Magi (Three Wise Kings), brought an inappropriate, unwanted, and terrible gift just one year ago. For a long time, the Christian population in the United States has clearly …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When President López Obrador leaves the Presidency of the Republic, his party-movement called Morena will tend to disappear. That instrument was not created to survive in time but was entrusted with a single objective and purpose: to achieve the presidency with and …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Having turned drug lords into important political players will be, without a doubt, the most cursed inheritance that López Obrador will leave Mexico at the end of his term as President of the Republic. The massacres recently carried out by drug cartels …
Luis Rubio Ideological coherence or political pragmatism: the eternal dilemma of alliances. These last as long as their members continue to find greater benefits in participating and remaining in them than in denouncing them and breaking away. From Marxist theoreticians to the most seasoned political …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The temporary nature of his power is beginning to anguish him. Entering the second, and last, three years of his six-year term, with so few tangible results and so much left to do, has caused him to try to exaggerate his progress …
Antonio Navalón When Winston Churchill decided to write his memoirs – he must have been about three years old, given the sense of significance he had since he was a child and the conviction that he would make history – he decided to title the …
Photo: Alex Shanless on Pexels Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Listening to the President of Mexico speak, in these Christmas times, of Christian repentance, of Jesus Christ, humility, peace, and banishing hatred, it is impossible not to think of Milton and Cuba’s Paradise Lost and their empty speeches. In 1667 the English poet John Milton published his …
Luis Rubio The pandemic has ended, but its aftereffects are visible everywhere. An epidemic, Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906, is “a disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices.” Indeed, science responded with medicines that helped alleviate the symptoms of those who fell ill. At …
Juan Villoro I have lived long enough to attend the weddings of a friend who refers to the most recent one as his “fourth transformation.” A journalist colleague commented that these marriages should not be mentioned in the Social section but the Sports section. Dr. …