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 Simplifying what is happening in Latin America in political, economic, and social terms leads to a failure to perceive long-term trends. Instead, analyses tend to start from immediate circumstances to extrapolate long-term trends. A first warning is that simplifying trends into “left” …
Polarization around the world is increasingly present, in some cases even concerning. Politics in some countries are moved by protesting angry citizens fed up with the incompetence of their leaders. Extremists have a fertile ground for their causes, both for left and right. Unlikely candidates …
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 Mexico’s Foreign Minister assured that 12 leaders are coming to the summit convened by AMLO in Palenque on migration, “and with us we are 13”. However, the list ends up being a list of friends: Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, and Guatemala. Perhaps …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Extremes touch, some say. And it is always surprising when it happens. The similarity between the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the presidential candidate of Argentina, Javier Milei, is undoubtedly surprising. Of course, one, the Mexican, claims to be …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Most Americans have not seen the Narcos series, but the political class of both parties in their country has confirmed their conviction that Mexico is a country where crime reigns. In the U.S. perception, what exists in Mexico is a narco-state where …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The lights and shadows of Latin America’s supposed shift to the left need to be explored. Does it mean being ‘left-wing’ simply because a leader or party proclaims itself as such? To understand a government’s ideology, it is necessary to explore its …
Luis Rubio “Great cases [before de Supreme Court] like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not because of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the …