Tag: OP-ED
The Jam
All governments, in Mexico and in the world, hit the wall at some point. What’s crucial is not...
Scenarios
“In a riot, as in a novel”, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “the most difficult thing is to invent...
Mexican media coverage of Elba Esther Gordillo
Mexican media sticks to the agenda set by the government, while U.S. media set their own. Mexican journalists...
The Other Is the Guilty Party
In his book on the "clash of civilizations," Samuel Huntington foresaw that the upcoming era of worldwide conflict...
The eternal struggle
The history of the independent Mexico, wrote Edmundo O’Gorman, is the perennial struggle between tradition and modernity. Every...
Progress…
In his 1990 Nobel Lecture, Octavio Paz affirmed that “History’s sun is the future and Progress is the...
Priorities
In a visit to Mexico at the end of the eighties, the head of a delegation of businesspeople...
Presidents
All presidents believe themselves to be predestined to change the future and to leave a legacy of historic...
Pathetic and Grave
The president refuses the possibility of turning over the government to the PRI. The probable new PAN president,...
No Strings Attached
In his film Annie Hall, Woody Allen attempts to explain irrational relationships with a joke: "This guy goes...