Juan Villoro How many hours should a person sleep? The enigma, of course, is unfathomable. Napoleon would close his eyes in two batches of a couple of hours and awaken with enough stamina to invade Egypt. On the other hand, Einstein proved that work is …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukraine and Cuba have something in common, defined by their geographic location and internal politics. They are hostage states because of their geographies and national circumstances. In a world of recurring conflicts between superpowers, being the “near neighbor” to either means geopolitical …
Antonio Navalón Models become exhausted. Empires collapse—everything changes. As if we didn’t have enough with hyperinflation or what the Covid-19 pandemic has meant, the world has been holding its breath again in the last few weeks. The word “war” has appeared again as something probable …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When President López Obrador explained the reasons that led him to fire Rogelio Jiménez Pons as the person in charge of the Mayan Train project, he bluntly stated: “…. above all is the higher interest, the interest of the people and the …
Luis Rubio “The curse of man, and the cause of his worst woes, wrote HL Mencken, is his stupendous capability for believing the incredible. He is forever embracing delusions, and each new one is more preposterous than all that has gone before.” That’s what Mexican …
Antonio Navalón I have had a weakness and intellectual curiosity for the Russian soul for many years now. To find people so sentimental and violent at the same time is a difficult task. The Tsar was its maximum emblem and the expression par excellence of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador lives obsessed with a dangerous fantasy, which leads him to govern with daring and destructive actions. It is as if he has a voice speaking in his ear about a supposedly magnificent historical legacy that awaits him if he …
“In politics, civilities are substance” Attributed to Jesús Reyes Heroles On June 8 of last year, we published a note titled “AMLO’s Mexico Downgraded.” The subtitle was “The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country.” It was based on the State visit …
Antonio Navalón Since the 12th of October 1492, when Christopher Columbus heard the word “Tierra” and began to see the outlines of the island of Guanahaní – baptized by him as the island of San Salvador – Spanish-speaking America has had very few opportunities to …
