Truss and AMLO, from one Fiasco to the Next.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce. Liz Truss and AMLO suffer from the syndrome of promoting policies without consensus that clash with real society. They promote programs that sound like political slogans accompanied by commercial jingles but lack any technical, budgetary, or feasibility soundness. Both rulers came to …

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The Democratic Time is Getting Shorter

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s recent foreign policy decisions reveal unacceptable alliances with dictatorships. These alignments indicate that Mexico is positioning itself to validate an era of anti-liberal and anti-democratic practices. A government’s foreign policy is also a faithful portrait of its domestic policies. Recently, the …

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AMLO and his Feast of Denial.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While Mexico becomes a cemetery, AMLO, in psychopathic denial, offers a peace plan for Ukraine and Russia. In the face of intentional homicides resulting from drug trafficking and deaths by COVID-19, including those due to excess mortality, gender violence and femicides, missing …

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Extremisms.

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 …

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The Kingdom of this World.

In his masterpiece, whose title is borrowed for this piece, Alejo Carpentier distinguishes the difference between magical thinking and the marvelous real -not to be confused with García Márquez’s magical realism-. Writes Carpentier:  “But it is that many forget, by disguising themselves as magicians and …

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