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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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The nomination of Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s candidate for the governorship of the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) says a lot about the current state of politics in Mexico. The economic importance and electoral weight of the State of Mexico, just outside Mexico City,
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Redemptorist leaders, daffodils in love with their self-proclaimed moral beauty, are not responsible for the consequences of their actions. This ironclad truth was the subject of “Politics as a Vocation,” a famed conference offered by German sociologist Max Weber in January 1919 in Munich . His words then reverberate in our current time. The circumstances when
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As the internal conflict inside Venezuela grows on a daily basis, the numbers of voices in Mexico pleading with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to declare himself in support of the cause of the now-enormous number of nations (and columnists in Mexico) favoring self-appointed “substitute President” Juan Guaidó over ruling President Nicolás Maduro. On Monday, Feb.
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An Open Letter to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Saturday, Feb. 23, tons of desperately needed humanitarian aid in the form of food and medications was blocked from entering Venezuela from Colombia and Brazil, much of it set on fire as soldiers loyal to Nicolás Maduro faced off against desperate civilians in a deadly crash
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Monday, Jan. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opened a political can of worms in the form of the introduction of his “Cartilla Moral,” aka, “The Gospel according to Saint Andrés,” a step-by-step guidebook on how to live a moral life, at peace with nature, your family, your neighbors and humanity as a whole.
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