Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’ candidacy exploded onto the national scene in 1987-1988, an intense debate broke out on the left about what to do in the face of such an unexpected event. Something about his personal characteristics and the historical representation of his …
Luis Rubio The narrative hides more than it illuminates: its purpose is not to explain the circumstances or argue in favor of this or that proposal but to control the national conversation and strengthen a message whose intention has nothing to do with progress or …
Oleg Nesterenko, President of the Centre de Commerce & d’Industrie Européen *Originally published: Donbass Insider on July 5, 2023, L’Eclaireur des Alpes on Jul 13, 2023, and by the Monthly Review Online on July 14, 2023 This is the second of three parts of an interview that Oleg Nesterenko, President …
Antonio Navalón People. People. People. We are the people. Nothing without the people. Everything with the people. At some point in history, Andrés Manuel López Obrador would change his identity to place a new sign of identity which is the one he chooses, embraces, and …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Two deaths in the left in one week: Adolfo Gilly and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. Both, each in their own way, left teachings, theses, and paths. Both political militants: Adolfo, a revolutionary, and Porfirio, an institutional revolutionary. That slight difference distanced them, even …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Xóchitl Gálvez unexpectedly burst onto the scene of a country hungry for a change with a future. Nobody expected it, although many longed for it. It seemed obvious: the failure of López Obrador and his accumulation of unfulfilled promises could not be …
Luis Rubio Salim, 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 future and tragic in which progress, and the old practices that never disappeared, sow the seeds of the …
Antonio Navalón The various modifications of European borders throughout history can be likened to open-heart surgery. Since the Greeks and since the time of the Roman Empire, there has never been a peaceful alteration of Europe’s geographical boundaries. Today, the case is no different. Europe …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Zócalo event was what it was supposed to be: massive mobilization leaving the plaza before the beginning and hatred, a lot of hatred. There was an accumulation of promises and a blurring of responsibility for criminality, violence, lack of medical attention, …
Ricardo 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, economic, and political polarization as their privileged instrument to hold on to power. And all three have …