Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Rulers and politicians worldwide are on the warpath against their legal systems and judicial procedures. In general, it can be said that they consider that the judges and magistrates of their countries restrict their omnipotence when they want to bypass the laws …
Luis Rubio “You can observe a lot by just watching,” said the great baseball icon Yogi Berra. There are few things as sobering as the way that campaigns for the presidency are coming to take shape. Times of presidential succession are exceptional moments because they …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce What does the left have to offer Mexico and the rest of Latin America? In Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the question is quickly answered: it offers dictatorship and corruption. In Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile, the governing lefts persecute each other, …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The balance of the first leftist (?) government in Mexico is its intention to break the constitutional order. The President has dedicated himself to undoing the regime of the three branches of the republican State to change it for a regime of …
Luis Rubio Nothing is more important for the development of a country than education. In fact, some of the nations that succeeded in breaking away from underdevelopment the fastest were precisely those that turned education into a vehicle to transform their countries in an integral …
Image: Hein Gravenhorst on elementum.art/en Federico Reyes Heroles Talking is a way to enter into other dimensions we often deny, perhaps as a protection against the, until now, inexplicable. “Let no one delay philosophizing because he is young, nor tire of philosophizing because he is old. For no one is too early or too late …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce López Obrador’s presidency attempts to return Mexico to the era of an economy controlled by guidelines emanating from the State and not so much from the market. He proposes an economy where the State is the monopolistic agent that determines who invests …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While in Gaza, the death toll exceeds 20,000, in Mexico, the death toll in 2023 is approaching 30,000. President Lopez Obrador has diplomatically called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas group in Gaza. But when he refers to insecurity in …
Luis Rubio Inequality of opportunity is one of the greatest maladies of Mexico, perhaps the worst of all. The deep-seated notion in the mythology that any Mexican can echo Benito Juárez’s arrival from a remote rural place to the presidential seat of power is clearly false, at least for …
