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28 noviembre 2013

The Danger in Mexico’s Divided House

Reform movements have triggered many revolutions in Mexico. Those put forward by President Enrique Peña Nieto since his inauguration in December 2012 are not likely to set off a violent uprising, but the negative reaction to some of his proposals is intense — and promises to become much stronger.
31 octubre 2013

Mexico’s Theology of Oil

In almost every country, the availability and exploitation of oil are essentially economic issues -every country, that is, except Mexico, where it is a matter of secular theology.
06 junio 2013

Bolívar: What Price Glory?

In the Complete Works of Simón Bolívar appears a prose poem so unusual that some historians have questioned its authenticity.
27 septiembre 2012

Mexico at war

With its terrible brutality and its death toll of nearly 60,000 lives in four years, the current Mexican drug war recalls two other periods of violence across the past two centuries of Mexican history.
29 junio 2012

Can Mexico’s Incoming Government make the Needed Reforms?

On Sunday, about 45 million Mexicans (roughly 60 percent of eligible voters in a population of 110 million) are expected to choose their next president.
02 octubre 2011

Can this poet save Mexico?

Something amazing is happening in Mexico. A few weeks ago, a 14-bus caravan, which had been traveling under the leadership of Javier Sicilia, a poet and the founder of the Movement for Peace With Justice and Dignity, arrived here after a 10-day trek around the country. Its every move was followed by the national media, and thousands showed up to greet its return.
14 septiembre 2010

Mexico, a War Every Century

Every 100 years, Mexico seems to have a rendezvous with violence. As the country gathers on Wednesday night for the ceremony of the “grito”.
07 julio 2010

An Anti-Incumbency Wave — in Mexico

it is important to note some sudden good news: On Sunday, in 14 of Mexico’s 32 states, millions of citizens went to the polls and, defying the threat of violence from drug cartels, decisively consolidated our young democracy.
04 noviembre 2009

In the Shadow of the Patriarch. Gabriel García Márquez and the demons of his time

Many years later, in the course of writing his memoirs, Gabriel García Márquez was to remember that distant afternoon in Aracataca, in Colombia, when his grandfather set a dictionary in his lap and said, "Not only does this book know everything, it’s the only one that’s never wrong." The boy asked, "How many words are in it?" "All of them," his grandfather replied.

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