The Power Owes Nothing
Antonio Navalón No one gets more help and voluntary support from their supporters than national soccer coaches and presidential candidates, as long as things are going in the right direction. It must be understood that both are having a game in which our national team …
Trump and AMLO launched the attack.
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce Donald Trump was categorical: he threatened to provoke a bloodbath in the United States if he loses the next presidential election. And he defined his object of hatred: immigrants who, he said, “are not even human”. AMLO, on the other hand, is …
Extraordinary Times
Antonio Navalón One of the books that talks about that exciting part of the history of the United States that was the New Deal, promoted under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is called “No Ordinary Time” written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, translated into Spanish …
The Liar
Juan Villoro In 2016, during the campaign for the US presidency, I recalled in this space a novel that anticipated Donald Trump’s triumph: It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935, while Mussolini was invading Ethiopia and Hitler was suspending the civil rights …
Endless Power
Antonio Navalón The fifth horseman is a figure of recognized existence and presence in most of the catastrophes of humanity. The world is more aware of the four horsemen, although, on the occasions when the fifth horseman appears, the situation ends up being a complete …
