Photo: Ali Reza Ahmedi on Unsplash Antonio Navalón History has taught us that when the world does not look at you and you are at home free to do what you want or, in other words, when there is no force or power that can face you, you can do the greatest atrocities of the …
Photo: Alexas Photos on Pexels Luis Rubio If the discourse avows it, it must be true. That’s the way Mexican politics has worked during the past years: 100% rhetoric. One needs no more than to listen to the endless advertisements by legislators claiming to have fixed this and the other problem just because they approved …
Comments: I think the US is obviously the problem with multilateralism but I disagree with much of his postulates. He is coming from a 20th-century posture regarding multilateralism, and that rested on a ‘Pax Americana’ that is untenable. Much of America’s political discourse concerns government …
Photo: Levent Simsek on Pexels Antonio Navalón The modern world – in which Covid-19 is included and this new collective experience of being able to die at any moment suddenly, without prior warning and by the simple fact of having touched the railing of a staircase or the handle of a door – it offers …
Image: United Nations Luis Rubio “What has to be done if ever the people vote to establish a dictatorship?” wonders Karl Popper, the great student of democracy and open societies. Most democracies, says the author, include provisions to prevent that from happening, such as requiring qualified majorities in Congress. Legally or not, the fact is …
Photo: Pixabay on Pexels Antonio Navalón Tomorrow the electoral campaigns will officially begin in the United States. The first debate between the two candidates, President Donald Trump and candidate Joe Biden marks the beginning of the final stretch. The last mile. The bets are very close and the forecast about what will happen next November …
The captain has lost his way and the ship is heading into unchartered waters at full steam Photo: Pixabay on Pexels Manuel Suárez-Mier No amount of evidence and hard facts are able to move Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) from the world of fantasy and lies that he has built to deceive his …
Whether “A Leaderless and Divided World will be the New Normal” was discussed at a virtual conference hosted by the Singapore Summit. Niall Fergusson asserted: “The world has an inherent need for leadership. If the U.S. genuinely can no longer provide it, someone else will. Perhaps China, perhaps — who knows — a European Union who now …
Photo: iStock by Getty Images Luis Rubio “Each generation doubtless feels called upon to save the world” Albert Camus begins saying in his speech on obtaining the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. That is the spirit with which Mexican President López Obrador appears to have undertaken his government: change everything. There were good reasons to …
Photo: Felix Weinitschke on Unsplash Antonio Naval��n In life, there are always many ways to move on, but what I have clear is that it is not enough to have the desire to do it, much less to have a reason for it, but it is also necessary to find a way to succeed. Getting …