By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE I was helping out a 25-year-old American with some legal advice the other day and he made a mistake on something. Instinctively, I said, “Don’t sweat it; you’re a kid and I’m a senior.” He later reprimanded me by saying, “I just turned 25, and think of myself as a young man rather than a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pick your fighting cock and make your wagers because the birds of combat are about to engage here in Mexico. Actually, the kind of birds of combat I am talking about are engaged. Still, make your pick. The political battle really began over a month ago, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) disclosed the existence
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Around the globe, 1968 is the one year during the second half of the 20th century that is most remembered by historians as a year of social unrest because to the large amount of university student rebellions that took place. Of all of them (in France, Germany and definitely the United States, among others), perhaps the only
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It would seem Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) is irrigating the upcoming presidential elections with a holy hose. Just as they were trying last week to plug a hole with the elimination of two independent presidential hopefuls due to their alleged filing of fake voter credentials, this week INE’s hose has developed a new leak, and it’s a
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