Manuel Suárez Mier † *This was originally published on November 29, 2018, by the Asia Times. The rash and costly proclamations of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador have already knocked $100 billion off the local stock exchange; the country is on a path to political, …
Antonio Navalón Every time I see on televisions, on streaming platforms, on Twitter, and, of course, in the much outdated printed newspapers the images of tanks moving around the borders of Belarus and Ukraine, it is as if I were watching the movement of the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador evaluates the convenience of Mexico’s exiting from the USMCA to consolidate his sovereignty dream over the energy sector and exclude the world from the “treasure”. He thinks it will be his step into history and will allow him to …
Luis Rubio The catastrophe to come was ever more evident. Errors and losses accumulated, the destruction was uncontainable, and the end was imminent, yet no one rebelled. The population backed the government to the end, though this would imply total destruction. Thus begins the book …
Antonio Navalón It is moving to see the clash between the dream and the reality of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Every morning, after saying good morning – always wearing a coat, as being from Tabasco, the cold affects him significantly – …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When a government feels cornered, it contemplates a coup d’état as its only salvation. It is nothing new. The drama of Latin America is filled with the actions of governments that have resorted to desperate decisions to “save themselves”. These coups considerations …
Luis Rubio The problem with fires is that they can blow in any direction -and one can get burned. However, that seems to be the frame of mind of the government today. The presidential term advances within a global environment over which the president has …
Juan Villoro “I wasn’t like that; the gadgets changed me,” confesses a friend. Indeed, twenty years ago, we were all not only younger but different. Technology provides experiences that once seemed contradictory, if not impossible. One of these is “remote intimacy”. There is much talk …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Putin made the mistake of thinking that he would get Ukraine to turn its gaze towards Russia and forget about the West by massing troops on the Ukrainian border. In his gamble, he considered that he had more time to pressure the …
Luis Rubio Mexico has undergone an underlying, albeit hidden, discord about its future for various decades. From a positive quasi-consensus -at least more or less generalized enthusiasm- concerning the future that was born with the liberalization of the economy and, especially, with the successful negotiation …