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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.
05 septiembre 2006

Mexico: Democracy under Threat

In the 681 years between the founding of the Aztec empire in 1325 and the present day, Mexico has lived for 196 years under an indigenous theocracy, 289 years under the absolute monarchy of Spain, 106 years under personal or party dictatorships, 68 years embroiled in civil wars or revolutions, and only 22 years in democracy.
27 julio 2006

Kidnapping Mexican Democracy

To illustrate the "ad terrorem" method by which truth was imposed in totalitarian societies, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski told a story...

Línea de tiempo

Conoce la obra e ideas de Enrique Krauze en su tiempo.