The Cuban government has systematically suppressed its citizens’ fighting spirit, leading to mass emigration amidst worsening economic turmoil. Persistent power outages result from policy failures and budgetary misallocation, prioritizing repression over public welfare. This strategy aims to control dissent, as over a million Cubans have fled the dire living conditions and lack of freedom.
美国与墨西哥在政治上日益对立，但经济上却愈发依赖。墨西哥对拉美独裁政权的支持、与俄罗斯的“中立”关系以及与中国的共谋都引发关注。在此背景下，墨西哥经济与美国的紧密关系显得尤为重要，影响到数百万侨民的利益。
The United States and Mexico share a complex relationship characterized by economic interdependence alongside political tensions. Mexico’s support of authoritarian regimes, including Cuba and Venezuela, and its neutrality towards Russia fosters conflict with U.S. interests. This ideological divide complicates Mexico’s commitment to market economies amidst growing ties with China and organized crime.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The overrepresentation of Morena in Congress was consummated. In a few weeks, there will be at least a change of the Judicial Power and the elimination of the autonomous bodies. An electoral reform to close the way to minorities and reelection will …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s support for Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship is a fact. The question is why and whether this support is a correct policy for the Mexican State. To support Nicolás Maduro under the current conditions is to help a dictatorship. It is a dictatorship …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce “The parliamentary republic, in its struggle against the oppositions, was forced to strengthen, along with repressive measures, the means and centralization of government power. All revolutions perfected this machine instead of destroying it”. Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. The …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Conservative nationalism is a worldwide trend today, although it is difficult to discern in all its intricacies. The conjunction of apparently alien forces has a strange common ideological component: it includes conservative nationalists of the traditional right and militants of some long-standing …
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, …
Juan Villoro Espionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a profession that depends on conceiving and manipulating the lives …
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” …