Mexico has since mid-April 2009 been the unaccustomed centre of global attention. The sourcing of the H1N1 flu virus to the country triggered a national and international health emergency that
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Mexico is increasingly being characterised as a "failed state" on account of its inability to counter the country's burgeoning problems of drug-trafficking
The United States presidential election on 4 November 2008 will presage the departure of the conservative right from the White House, a process that will culminate in the inauguration of
Latin America is in turmoil because it is immersed in a three-track transformation: renewing its leaderships, seeking solutions to ancient problems, and readjusting its relations to the world.
Sergio Aguayo
History chastises arrogance. The United States justified the invasion of Iraq by the defence of democracy as well as of its national interests and its world leadership. Today it is
Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, declared a war on organised crime at the beginning of his period in office. Seven months after his inauguration on 1 December 2006, and
Twenty years and the death or disappearance of tens of thousands were necessary for the Mexican state to seriously consider the challenge launched by organised crime networks that were capable
Those of us who live in Mexico have had the feeling, for quite some time, of walking on a volcano of political and social conflict that might become active at
All over the world, condemnation of the Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador proliferates over his refusal to concede defeat after the official results of the country's
Sergio Aguayo Quezada is professor at Mexico's Colegio de Mexico
Also by Sergio Aguayo Quezada in openDemocracy:
"Mexican democracy in peril" (April 2005)
"America'
The spectre of electoral irregularities has reappeared in Mexico and could stain the presidential election of 2 July 2006. The possibilities are so worrisome that Mexico has requested an electoral-observation
Mexico is a country of stark and illuminating contrasts. One of them is increasingly apparent in the campaign for the presidential election due on 2 July 2006: between an urbanised
