CIENCIA POLÍTICA

Political Science as Cosa Nostra Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero Political science in Mexican public universities is not only at an existential crossroads; it inhabits a morgue of empty concepts. The spirit of Emilio Uranga, that philosopher of the Hyperion who dissected the ontology of the Mexican only to then surrender himself to the arms of absolute power, seems to have returned in a degraded and cynical version. Today, the university "intellectual" no longer seeks to explain the world, but rather, in an act of pure nihilism, decides to kill everything: the transition, democracy, and science, in order to make a final pact with the regime in power. The intellectual's suicide is not Socratic but Machiavellian. This attitude, which some mistake for pragmatism, is in reality criminal cronyism. It is the literal application of Mario Puzo's maxim: when the law is an obstacle and institutions are empty shells, "it's better to have a godfather than a father....

 A Beetle in Teotihuacan Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero The echo of the explosions at the Pyramid of the Moon not only shattered the age-old silence of the City of the Gods, but also definitively tore away the veil of ideological innocence that Mexico believed it possessed by right. The incident, perpetrated by a lone wolf, is presented to the public as the eruption of a narcissistic nihilism that, under the veneer of outdated mysticism, carried out a blood ritual in the heart of Mexico's indigenous heritage. A young man from Morelos, trapped in a profound alienation, decided to inhabit the body of a Nordic warrior to purge his resentments against modernity. As analyst Carlos Ramírez has aptly pointed out, this event represents the irruption of far-right terrorism at a time when the struggle for the indigenous past has become the center of the national discourse. It is paradoxical that, while the presidency asserts sovereignty against the old Spanish empire, a lone wolf decides t...

 Evangelical Geopolitics Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero The influence of messianic and dispensationalist perspectives on Donald Trump's politics has opened a space for deep reflection on its geopolitical implications, particularly in relation to countries like Mexico. Several scholars, including Carlos Garma, Elio Masferrer, Samuel Schmidt, Leopoldo Cervantes Ruiz, and Carlos Martínez García, agree that this vision, driven by Trumpism, goes beyond the merely religious. They suggest that it is a geopolitical strategy with eschatological overtones, where the United States, under a biblical interpretation, assumes the role of a divine instrument in a conflict related to Jerusalem and the Middle East, oriented toward the fulfillment of a supposed divine plan for the end times. While they criticize the conservative and messianic character of this school of thought, their approaches differ when analyzing the political, religious, and geopolitical aspects involved. This current of thoug...

Hungary and the Intermarium Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero The fall of Viktor Orbán in 2026 marks a turning point that compels us to revisit Fredo Arias King's warning about the nature of transitions. For this author, democratic success in Eastern Europe depended on a radical break with previous power structures, something that Orbán's illiberal model simply reformulated under a modern nationalism. Now, with the triumph of Péter Magyar, Hungary faces the dilemma of the Intermarium: that belt of nations between the Baltic and the Black Sea desperately seeking to shake off Russian influence while attempting to assimilate Western values ​​that do not always align with its historical reality. As Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez has aptly pointed out, the change in Hungary is not an automatic liberal restoration, but rather a conservative replacement. This lesson is vital for Mexico. We often believe that democracy ends with the vote count, but as analyzed in the volume edited by Ilan B...

 The Coming Progressive Right Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero While the historical right, that of the Habsburg model, corporatist and clerical, clings to its remnants of power through local political bosses, a more insidious creature is emerging: the progressive right of the digital youth. It is not a force for liberation, but rather the enforcer of an algorithmic puritanism that has transformed the classroom into a pocket-sized Inquisition tribunal. These young people, who carry their cell phones like personal panopticons, are not rebels; they are the new watchdogs of a regime that despises them while granting them the illusion of moral superiority. It is the minionization of the spirit: a mass desperately seeking a charismatic villain to serve and a scapegoat to cancel. They have replaced hard data and scientific rigor with the fetish of identity, validating an authoritarian structure that uses tenderness to conceal what is rotten. This new right wing doesn't need bayonets when ...

 The Middle Ages and Civil Sacralism Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero Just over a century after the fields of Mexico were stained with the blood of the Cristero War, the nation's spiritual and political landscape is undergoing a metamorphosis that the Catholic hierarchy seems incapable of deciphering. While the echoes of the 1926 bells resonate in a sterile nostalgia for some sectors of Hispanic Catholic nationalism, the factual reality of contemporary Mexico is sliding toward a new syncretism that has left the Church of Rome on the periphery of its own making. The phenomenon of the Fourth Transformation, far from representing a re-edition of Plutarco Elías Calles's Jacobinism or a Masonic insurgency, constitutes the consolidation of a civil sacralism that has been able to interpret the needs of a population exceeding sixty million poor, who, abandoned by their shepherd, have sought refuge in new folds. During his visit to Mexico in 2016, Pope Francis was prophetic when he warn...

Memory, Blood, and Faith: A Century After the Cristero War Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero Under the echo of a conflict that refuses to be relegated to mere archives, the San Juan Hall of the Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Puebla hosted the colloquium “The Cristero War in Mexico 1926-2026.” Contents THE CLASH OF TWO NATIONALISMS SYMBOLS OF RESISTANCE: THE CUP AND DICE AND THE CALLES LAW THE WAR ON THE PENTAGRAM: BETWEEN CORRIDOS AND AGRARIANISM A CENTENNIAL THAT QUESTIONS THE PRESENT The event marks the beginning of a series of reflections that, one hundred years after the Calles Law, seek to understand how faith and politics continue to dance a dangerous waltz in the construction of Mexican identity. Far from being a cold review of the past, the colloquium served as a necessary reflection on the centennial commemorations of the Cristero War, that open wound in the Bajío region that redefined the national soul. THE CLASH OF TWO NATIONALISMS The panel, moderated by Juan Bernar...