Photo: Jon Tyson on Unsplash Antonio Navalón On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States on Capitol Hill, and that day he delivered a speech similar to those that had brought him to the White House. A speech in which he promised to clean up the swamp and end …
Photo: Dayvison de Oliveira Silva on Pexels Luis Rubio Conflict is the essence of politics since it is the art of negotiation that allows conflict to be faced, managed, and processed. The most fundamental difference between societies facing conflict lies in how they resolve it, not in the very fact of its existence. Last week, …
Photo: NBC News José Manuel Suárez Mier The only way to explain the quarrelsome attitude of the President of Mexico towards President-elect Joe Biden is that he agrees with Donald Trump, who, despite his defeat, insists that the election was fraudulent and therefore supports his attempted coup as he tried it himself in 2006. Being …
Antonio Navalón The Chinese year that will end at the end of January is called the year of the rat. Certainly, and alluding to its Chinese symbolism, 2020 was a year not of predators but of rodents that have managed to dynamite – under the …
Luis Rubio The virus and the potential conclusion of the health crisis depend, ultimately, on science. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, it will produce the drugs to deal with it or the vaccine to suppress it. There’s hardly any serious laboratory in the world that …
Photo: El Economista Manuel Suárez Mier My dear Luis Enrique Mercado (LEM) was one more victim charged by the scythe of the pandemic that plagues Mexico like few countries because of the government’s criminal performance to confront it, which is deliberate to concentrate power in the hands of the president and use it electorally. I …
Photo: Pickawood on Unsplash Luis Rubio Once he received an important recognition, Sean Connery explained that, on coming from a modest background, the great opportunity in his lifetime presented itself when he learned to read at five years of age. Reading was one of the great opportunities in this year of the virus. Here go …
Photo: Diana on Pexels Manuel Suárez Mier* With the qualification of Joe Biden’s presidential triumph by the Electoral College last week, the cob of almost unanimous support for Trump began to be shelled from members of his party and a growing number of his members in Congress that began to detach from him. Photo: Amaia …
Photo: Moritz Knöringer on Unsplash Antonio Navalón Turn the page. That is the first wish of the forty-sixth President of the United States, Joseph Biden, once the Electoral College confirmed on December 14 what we all knew since November 5: that, despite Donald Trump, he had won the elections. But to turn the pages, the …
Photo: The Jay Walker library on PriceyPads.com Luis Rubio I ended the year reading a book nearly unique in its genre and extraordinary in its transcendence: the history of two revolutionaries as seen by their daughter. Daughter of Revolutionaries, by Laurence Debray, tells the story of her parents prior to her birth and throughout her life, and …