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Children of the Fire

Tenochtitlán’s Founding: Facts vs. Political Narrative

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In the midst of so much death, life goes on.

Photo: Neil Thomas on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceTwo deaths in the left in one week: Adolfo Gilly and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. Both, each in their own way, left teachings, theses,...

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And then, suddenly, everything changed…

Photo: Elijah Hiett on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceXóchitl Gálvez unexpectedly burst onto the scene of a country hungry for a change with a future. Nobody expected it, although many longed...

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60/40

Image:  Dax1994 on ShutterstockLuis RubioSalim, a Central-African entrepreneur, is a personage who at once attracts and repels: his business prospers, serving up a perspective simultaneously optimistic about his country's...

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The European Earthquake

Photo: Faruk Tokluoğlu on PexelsAntonio NavalónThe various modifications of European borders throughout history can be likened to open-heart surgery. Since the Greeks and since the time of the Roman...

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A New Subject of Hatred and a New Route

Screenshot: on lavozdemichoacan.com.mxRicardo Pascoe PierceThe Zócalo event was what it was supposed to be: massive mobilization leaving the plaza before the beginning and hatred, a lot of hatred. There...

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AMLO, Trump, and Bolsonaro.

Image: on elespanol.comRicardo Pascoe Pierce.These three characters, AMLO, Trump, and Bolsonaro, profit from the accusation of electoral fraud, while all three were elected Presidents. All three used extreme social,...

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The Negotiation

Image: Metamorworks on iStockLuis Rubio Three truths are indisputable:  President López Obrador is unrepeatable; public finances are more vulnerable than they appear; and the election of Mexico's next president will...

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Siberia

Map: on sciencedirect.comJuan VilloroThe Earth is burning. After the coronavirus pandemic, global warming is advancing as an irreversible threat. The dramatic thing is not that the summer of 2023...

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