Now, as the INE and the TEPJF face erosion under the new Plan B electoral reform, Mexico’s Supreme Court has a unique historic opportunity to safeguard, with the Constitution well in hand, the integrity of those key arbitrators
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The defense of freedom in Mexico is, once again, in the hands of the nation’s judiciary
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“The war (against Mexico) will surely be a worthy prelude to the military history of the great country of the Yankees.” (Letter to Friedrich Engels, London, Nov. 30, 1854)
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Whoever wins, we will not give up democracy. Battered and all, democracy will prevail
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
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By ENRIQUE KRAUZE It was not through some miracle, but rather because thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, that Mexico has, successively, evolved as a theocratic, monarchical, viceroyalty, caudillism, dictatorial, revolutionary, revolutionary-institutional, and, finally today, a democratic state. Very soon, it may cease to be just that. It is sad, but perhaps understandable, that Mexico’s new generations are
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRUAZE The great Hungarian theoretician György Lukács was a member of the intellectual circle of German socialist Max Weber and was therefore well aware of the famous reflection of the master: “Whoever seeks the salvation of his soul and that of others must not do so through the path of politics, whose tasks, which are very opposed
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Enlightened leaders always tend to self-proclaim their moral superiority, and throughout history, the consequences of this delusion have been terrible. In his 1919 conference “Politics as a Vocation,” German socialist Max Weber pointed out the similarity between the revolutionaries of his time and the millenarian sects of the 17th century that had announced the imminent arrival
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By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Not long ago, I talked with my friend, the Spanish writer José María Lassalle, about the novel “1984” by George Orwell. We had my copy on hand. I transcribes the conversation. JML: In the country dominated by Big Brother — the omnipotent, omnipresent, omnipotent character of the novel — there were several ministries, but none as
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