Should we fear the power and economic weight of China? The answer is no, although we should not take our eyes off her.

For a government that boasts the lowest unemployment rate in the region and an adroit management of the economy, the proposal to relax labor standards is illogical. If there is no economic crisis, as they claim, there is no point in adjusting working hours in order to decrease corporate output.

“Because here nobody is better than anybody else” is one of Uruguay’s “most cherished sayings,” and sums up the nation’s “democratic spirit.” 

The 103th anniversary of the March of Loyalty, where Francisco I. Madero thanked the Armed Forces for their support, is being commemorated.  It’s a good time to examine the present state of the Mexican Army.

Just as economists are asked to solve the issues caused by the inequality gap, or those generated by an economic policy that privileges imports to the detriment of national production, current intellectuals and social philosophers are urged to formulate solutions for society as a whole. 

This is a short note that will deal with those moments in our national history that have witnessed a quasi-totalitarian sway over all instances of government, with their failed invocations to “national unity.”

Scholars who focus on the structure of fictional narrative believe that it is possible to study literature,  cinema, and theater simultaneously, independent of their content, in order to demonstrate that, in the end, they all follow the same rules, submerging the reader/spectator in a state of altered consciousness in which the inexistent becomes real.

The new US-Cuba relationship will not undermine the national identity.

Not facing the issues of Constitutional change and confronting hegemony has caused difficulties within the progressive forces of governments in Latin America.

The inevitable result is that the government does not negotiate because it cannot negotiate. It knows it must in order to get the country out of crisis, but by doing this it will have to let go of the revolutionary life.