Long live them!
Federico Reyes Heroles In Mexico, the axis was fear and rage. They walk on the cobblestones of the most party town I have ever known. It looks like a slow procession. I edge “to the edge”. There is no coffin in front; with a frown, …
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Hard Data on Security
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The situation of insecurity and generalized violence is, without a doubt, the problem that shakes the country the most. All surveys agree on this fact: of the issues that most concern Mexicans, it is insecurity that is mentioned most frequently. Therefore, it …
Extraordinary Times
Antonio Navalón One of the books that talks about that exciting part of the history of the United States that was the New Deal, promoted under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is called “No Ordinary Time” written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, translated into Spanish …
No response to criticisms
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The non-attendance of the Morena, PT, and Verde candidate to the CitiBanamex forum was not an accident or the result of a scheduling problem. The candidate and her team consciously decided not to attend such a meeting. What was so particular about …
On their way.
Luis Rubio In his novel on Argentina entitled Zama, Antonio Di Benedetto speaks of the “victims of expectation,” which Michael Reid, the Latin-American expert, interprets as the victims of waiting, a metaphor for the permanent expectancy of achieving the progress and prosperity that in Mexico would …
Now autocrats!
Federico Reyes Heroles With a tight hug to Carlos Loret. I was very saddened by the article. El Universal published the results of an investigation by the Pew Research Center. This is one of the most reputable institutions that has made a breakthrough in many …
The Liar
Juan Villoro In 2016, during the campaign for the US presidency, I recalled in this space a novel that anticipated Donald Trump’s triumph: It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935, while Mussolini was invading Ethiopia and Hitler was suspending the civil rights …
Pink Tide and Morena in the ring of the Zócalo
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Pink Tide and the Morena party faced each other in a competition to establish the importance of their respective conceptions of the world. In the first round, they compared something apparently mundane but not so mundane: how did the demonstrators arrive …
Tightening the rope
Antonio Navalón It is clear that until January 2025, the flagship and most important program, the Treaty between Mexico, the United States, and Canada – also known as CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC – which in turn represents one of the largest commercial markets in the world, will not …
What was NOT said at the Zócalo
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidential campaign kick-off event in the Zócalo was, in reality, a bow to Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And it was also an act of submission of the candidate to the real leader of the movement. And a maneuver to avoid …