fake-democracy

Photo: Wei Ding on UnsplashLuis RubioMexicans have become accustomed to living in a world of alternative reality: things are not the way they are, and instead of calling them by their right name, Mexicans sweeten them with pretentious synonyms...

symbols-and-reality

Photo: Ricardo Cruz on UnsplashJuan VilloroOn September 11, Sebastián Núñez Pérez and José Antonio Sánchez Juárez, members of the Good Government Council of the Caracol "Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde"( Flourishing the Rebel Seed), were on their way to San...

the-open-veins-of-mexico

Photo: ChaNaWiT on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceEduardo Galeano published his classic book The Open Veins of Latin America in 1971. The text was immediately taken as a sacred reference for the Latin American left. It is a rebuke of foreign...

disruptions

Image: Wildpixel on iStockLuis Rubio The agricultural worker at the end of the XVIII century was suddenly displaced by the appearance of the steam engine that substituted for, says Gertrude Himmelfarb,* an average of 50 employees in one...

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