Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The phrase “Love is paid with love” is the invitation to do something unconfessable accompanied by a complicit silence. It is the admission that “the unconfessable” will remain between the two, creating a relationship of mutual complicity. And it is also a …
Luis Rubio Decisive 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 will be one of these. This is neither good nor bad—only time can tell—but it can well be …
Antonio Navalón For many years – long after the destruction of the Second Temple, that of Solomon – people have always lived with conviction, and it is written in the Bible that the day the Third Temple is destroyed will be the end of the …
Federico Reyes Heroles It is not true; it is false that if you do not work, then you cannot have a good standard of living. That is the discourse of the past. Here, the government, the Mexican State, has to support… I hear the expression. …
Antonio Navalón No one gets more help and voluntary support from their supporters than national soccer coaches and presidential candidates, as long as things are going in the right direction. It must be understood that both are having a game in which our national team …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s electoral slogan (For the good of all, the poor first) has already shown its true intention. It is the political justification for giving money to people experiencing poverty in exchange for conditioning their votes. It is a transaction where citizens receive …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On February 7, 2010, President Hugo Chávez was walking through the historic center of Caracas and noticed a building of a certain elegance. He asked what it was: a building with private jewelry stores. Chávez raised his arm, pointed to the building, …
Luis Rubio The last few decades’ great success in politico-electoral matters was creating conditions of certainty regarding the electoral competition for those that would govern Mexico. The two electoral authorities (the National Electoral Institute [INE] and the Electoral Tribunal) came into being to avoid the …
Federico Reyes Heroles I resort to the title of Octavio Paz’s visionary 1983 book. The end of the Cold War, the advance of science, human rights as new motors of the civilizing process, confronted with dictatorships in Latin America and Africa, the eternal conflicts in …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The first debate between the three presidential candidates concluded. The first aspect that stood out was the excellent conduct of the two moderators, even though Morena had tried to disqualify Manuel López San Martín from ADN 40. On the other hand, the …