Luis Rubio According to Simon Kuznets, the world has four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina. Argentina has been defying gravity for decades, in fact, almost a century. With small moments of euphoria, its economy has gone from bad to worse for so …
Juan Villoro How tasty are we? Some people lack salt, and others stimulate all the senses. Love is whimsical. No one understood it better than Italo Calvino, whose centenary is celebrated these days. His most fruitful reflections on food and passion occurred precisely in Mexico. …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Argentina repudiated Peronism, Kirchnerism, leftism, and the populist rhetoric accompanying those governments for over two decades. During that time, it has received political support from Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, Lula Da Silva, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The economic management has been …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Although the world’s attention is focused on the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, the war that will have serious global consequences in the future is still being waged in Ukraine. In that country, the strategic lines of …
Luis Rubio When one reads Kafka’s novels –The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis – there is no way to avoid the sensation of confusion and fascination as one goes through those labyrinths of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, irony, and the ever-present lacerating humor. Whoever looks through the pages of the …
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago. He is one of the world’s most influential and controversial thinkers on the topics of war and power. OUTLINE: 1:29 – Power 24:43 – Hitler 42:09 – Russia and Ukraine 1:38:22 – Israel …
Luis Rubio The 2024 presidential election promises to be like no other since Mexico began its long, painful, and unfinished transition to democracy. Three factors make this a unique moment: an economy ever more distant from the political cycle, a political structure susceptible to collapse, …
Antonio Navalón There is global unanimity that the 21st century, which has brought and contributed so much to the history of the modern world, has also witnessed an enormous depreciation in the quality of the political ruling class. This is not a problem that only …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Every budget reveals priorities and concerns; it conceals errors and keeps the skeletons hidden in the closet. Such is the budget for the year 2024 that the Chamber of Deputies has just approved. The fact that the Morenista, Green, and PT majorities …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On the day López Obrador received his investiture as constitutional President of Mexico on December 1, 2018, in the Congress of the Union, he went to Mexico City’s Zócalo to receive a baton from Carmen Santiago Alonso, representative of 68 indigenous peoples …