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Anti-Semitism Raises Its Ugly Head in Mexico, Again
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Even though this is something that happened a few weeks ago, it is an issue that I don’t want to let go by unmentioned: Anti-Semitism has reappeared in Mexico’s public life, instigated by the powers that be. And the subject deserves a cautionary reflection. “The day there is not a single Jew left in the world,
Read moreThe Rise and Fall of Mexico’s First Great Political Party
By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
Read moreCelebrating Dad this Father’s Day
By THÉRÊSE MARGOLIS In Mexico, Mother’s Day is a very big deal, with mandatory presents, commemorative lunches and even mariachi serenades. Father’s Day, not so much. In case you are interested, the much-maligned holiday for Pops came into existence back in 1909 in the United States, when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, “tried to establish an official equivalent to
Read moreThe Last Coup d’État in Mexico, 100 Years Hence
By RICARDO CASTILLO At the private club called the House of Coahuila, located in the lovely southern Mexico City’s Coyoacán municipality in Churubusco, right across the street from the Interventions Museum, every May 21, we commemorate the death by way of assassination in 1920 of Coahuila-born Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Actually, many enthusiasts even organize trips into the Puebla mountains
Read moreThe Mexican Left’s Road to the Presidency
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The leftist parties in Mexico have followed a complicated and convoluted path to political power,..
Read moreAMLO Vows Not to Seek Reelection
By RICARDO CASTILLO Why exactly did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sign a document on Tuesday, March 19, swearing not to seek reelection as president? That question has many answers, but it is extremely odd — this year being 2019, more than five and a half full years before the next presidential term — that any sitting president
Read moreThe Inevitable Extinction of the PRInosaurs
By RICARDO CASTILLO Ninety years ago today, on March 4, 1929, Mexican history took a turn to become the nation it is today. Modern Mexican history began with the foundation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), a political organization that would change name in 1940 to the Party of the Mexican Revolution and in 1945 to what it is today
Read moreIslas Marías: From Penal Colony to Nature Reserve
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve
Read moreA Dinosaur in Agony
By RICARDO CASTILLO Echoes of Mexico’s July 1 presidential “tsunami” election that favored now-President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) linger on. At the presidential residence of Los Pinos, President Enrique Peña Nieto and his cabinet met during the afternoon of the elections to receive the bad news from a flurry of exit polls from all over the nation. By midday, one of the
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