Yuri HerreraTulane University Volume 7, 2015 1. Percepciones desleales En octubre de 2012 un columnista de Milenio, uno de los diarios más cercanos al círculo del entonces presidente de la República Felipe Calderón, revelaba datos sobre un documento en el que trabajan los equipos de transición de las administraciones entrante y saliente (Puig). Según este documento, durante...
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Democracy, Rule of Law, a “Loving Republic,” and the Impossibility of the Political in Mexico
Ignacio M. Sánchez PradoWashington University in saint louistranslated by Ariel Wind Volume 7, 2015 If we think about the subject of radical politics in Mexico, a radical politics that would escape the parameters of the liberal order so as to profoundly change the structure of Mexican politics – one of the first steps to take is...
Revolutionary Mexico, the Sovereign People and the Problem of Men with Guns
Joshua LundUniversity of Notre Dame Alejandro Sánchez LoperaUniversity of Pittsburgh Volume 7, 2015 1. On Saturday, January 9, 1915, General Felipe Ángeles, a romantic hero of the Mexican Revolution, rose to speak. The forum was the Military Convention of Aguascalientes. According to the testimony of one Citizen Berlanga, the assembly comprised generals and governors, or their...
Mexico’s Re-colonization: Unrestrained Violence, Rule of Law and the Creation of a New Order
Ivonne del ValleUniversity of California, Berkeley Volume 7, 2015 …que no de estas piezas y remiendos con que se atapa un agujero y se hacen ciento, como son estas piezas y remiendos de leyes y ordenanzas, que ordenando nunca acaban de ordenar cosa que baste; antes por atapar un agujero, hacen ciento y por deshacer una...
Radical Politics and/or the Rule of Law in Mexico
Ivonne del ValleU.C. Berkeley Estelle TaricaU.C. Berkeley Volume 7, 2015 The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of exception” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is...