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Partnering with the devil

Photo: Sudip Shrestha on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceOn September 30, 1938, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain, descended from his plane, arriving from Munich, Germany, and declared, "Here...

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Context

Image: Dizain on ShutterstockLuis RubioThe advent of populist currents, left and right, has been accompanied by the rejection of so-called globalization and a systemic summons for the reappearance of...

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The Mexican Spiral of Silence

Photo: Artem Lupanchuk on PexelsFederico Reyes HerolesAll human inventions are fallible. Even those that receive the most attention. Francis Bacon asserted that knowledge arises more readily from error than...

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Anarchy in Governance

Image: Dizain on ShutterstockAntonio NavalónI remember very clearly that during the Spanish democratic transition and, subsequently, after holding three general elections, we Spaniards discovered that the triumph of democracy...

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Mexico and Nicaragua: weapons against peace

Image: Alex Shuper in collaboration with Unsplash+Ricardo Pascoe PierceNicaragua today lives a family dictatorship similar to that of Anastasio Somoza. It is a country that has gone from one...

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“Love is paid with love”: Mafia prayer

Photo: Tim Marshall on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceThe phrase "Love is paid with love" is the invitation to do something unconfessable accompanied by a complicit silence. It is the admission...

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The Fork Ahead for Mexico

Image: AndreusK on iStockLuis RubioDecisive moments in people's lives and nations' histories determine the beginning of one era and the end of another. The coming election on June 2...

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The Future of Israel

Photo: Jim Vallee on ShutterstockAntonio NavalónFor many years - long after the destruction of the Second Temple, that of Solomon - people have always lived with conviction, and it...

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