Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The end of the year and the beginning of the new one is a period in national life. A period that represents the fulfillment of the ritual of dates, but it is a transit that, in essence, does not mean any change. …
Juan Villoro Sometimes the customs of a famous country are celebrated in another with little resemblance to it and is unlikely to carry them out. I refer, of course, to Christmas, a pagan rite that centuries later became associated with Christianity and later with the …
Luis Rubio Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says, “the True University of these days is a collection of books.” Here is my best attempt to share some of the readings that impacted me the most this year. Two emblematic dictators-Stalin and Hitler- were allies at the beginning …
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Federico Berrueto The attack against Ciro Gómez Leyva is extremely serious, more transcendent than what is being made public. No publicly known elements can lead to the reasons and motivations of the crime; hopefully, the authorities have well-founded presumptions, indications, and evidence for the explainable …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukrainian generals, led by Valery Zaluzhny, the commander of the Ukrainian army’s Joined Chiefs of Staff, report that Putin’s Russia is preparing a major offensive against their country, probably in early January, mid-January, or February at the latest. Their intelligence sources, both …
Antonio Navalón Before, in the other era, before we made history together, when the bad guys ruled – which explained all the ills that afflicted us – life was contained and depended on what happened in each election. Like centuries in the history of the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The ‘pauses’ in relations with several countries show that Mexico lacks a foreign policy. President López Obrador’s international diplomatic tactic is to begin any comment by saying that Mexico is careful not to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and …
Antonio Navalón There is a tendency to value failure that I have often wondered whether it is not the reaction to the sublimation of the triumph and victory that the American world has put in front of us. Pedro Castillo is no longer President of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When intelligence and dialogue are lacking, verbal political polarization often turns into physical violence. This is seen time and again in societies around the world. And their dynamics are very similar, albeit in very different contexts. Polarization and violence occur when societies …