Juan Villoro In memory of Carlos Monsiváis and José Emilio Pacheco One. From caudillo to licenciado On July 4, 1976, at the age of twenty, I made my debut at the polls in a country that had only one candidate for the presidency: José López …
Literatura y democracia * Juan Villoro A la memoria de Carlos Monsiváis y José Emilio Pacheco Uno. Del caudillo al licenciado El 4 de julio de 1976, a los veinte años, debuté en las urnas de un país que sólo tenía un candidato a la …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ultra-nationalism raised its head in the relations between Mexico and the United States. In June 2024 for Mexico and a few months later, in November in the United States, elections will be held to elect new Presidents in both nations. Trumpism and …
Antonio Navalón At the end of the 19th century, the Spanish empire was dying. Spanish intervention and supremacy were diminishing in several parts of the Caribbean – as in Puerto Rico or Cuba – as these nations were living their last years under the Spanish …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Guacamaya Leaks confirm, beyond any doubt, that no one is watching over the National Army. This lack of oversight and accountability represents a serious threat to the existence of the democratic State in Mexico. In democratic societies, security and intelligence agencies …
Luis Rubio The verdict in the trial of García Luna directly affects the individual accused. However, along the way, the questioning exposed the entire Mexican political system and exhibited a world of ambivalences concerning justice, drugs, corruption, and the Mexico–United States relationship. It was not …
Antonio Navalón 51 years old. He is only 51 years old and neither the business world nor on planet Earth there is hardly anyone who does not know who Elon Musk is. His kingdom is not of this world or, at least, not of this …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The massacre of five young men in Tamaulipas at the hands of a military detachment is the absolute refutation of everything AMLO has said about his official strategy against organized crime. And it comes at the worst moment: when the U.S. Congress …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s foreign policy has failed because it promotes an authoritarian ideology that most countries in Latin America do not accept. Examples abound, including his new “Latin American anti-inflation plan”, based on rhetorical, simplistic, and ideological ideas about the origin of inflation, as …
Luis Rubio The great success of capitalism has been the generation of wealth and prosperity for billions of global inhabitants, and at the heart of that system of the economic organization lies a crucial concept: the separation of political power from wealth. Although capitalism and …