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Mexican migration and social stability

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  Mexican migration and social stability Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero  Mexican paleoconservatism constitutes an ideological and political current deeply rooted in traditional, nationalist, and religious values, whose historical function has been the defense of a status quo based on social, cultural, and economic hierarchies. This force, which governs both nostalgic right-wing and populist left-wing movements, operates under a logic of control, centralization, and systematic rejection of enlightened modernity. Its clearest manifestation is the resistance to transformations that promote inclusion, legal certainty, and merit, preferring instead to preserve traditional power structures that favor local political bosses, clientelism, corporatism, and a veiled pigmentocracy inherited from the colonial caste system. This current has developed control strategies that bureaucratize and inhibit any attempt at democratization or profound social change. The persistence of this model i...

Terminator. Made in PCR

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 Terminator. Made in PCR Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero The farce of cultural purity has been the historical anchor that keeps Mexico in a medieval limbo. For generations, the Hispanic and Catholic ideology industry has constructed a narrative of victimization and false pride that, according to Mario Vargas Llosa's scathing diagnosis, constitutes true Latin American idiocy. This rhetorical Matrix, shared by both the folkloric left and the reactionary right, uses polarization to conceal an uncomfortable truth: attachment to the colonial, clerical, and collectivist heritage is not sovereignty, but rather the survival mechanism of a Creole elite that prefers to reign over the ruins of an impoverished country rather than submit to the rules of technical and inclusive modernity. In this scenario of paralysis, while the elites play at ideological simulation, the real Mexico has begun to refound itself from below, crossing the border and embracing an irreversible civilizational mutation...

North America: the cage of the Mexican economy

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North America: the cage of the Mexican economy Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero  Why can't Mexico get off the American train? The favorite narrative of Mexican nationalism is as predictable as it is harmful. Every time tensions with Washington escalate, the inner circle of invisible power—those corporate and political elites who operate to maintain Mexico as a modern version of the Habsburg Model—pulls out the worn-out script of diversification. They tell us, with a flippancy bordering on irresponsibility, that the solution is to look toward Beijing or Moscow; that, supposedly being one of the world's leading economies, we possess the strength to emancipate ourselves from the American production chain and access the global market autonomously. It's madness. A populist fantasy designed for domestic consumption that clashes head-on with the country's arithmetic and social reality. If Mexico truly possessed that economic capacity and structural strength, it wouldn't ex...

The Messiah, the Bishops, and the Caesar

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 The Messiah, the Bishops, and the Caesar Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero The current crisis of governance in Mexico has ceased to be a matter of domestic politics and has become the epicenter of a geopolitical reconfiguration. The State has exhausted its traditional mechanisms of mediation and is heading toward forced integration under Washington's aegis. The Messiah narrative, embodied in the figure of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, represents the last gasp of a sovereignty that, paradoxically, has deepened the structural ties between political power and organized crime. Like its predecessors, the current leadership has been unable to sever the umbilical cord with the powers that be, allowing the metastasis of drug trafficking to reach high levels of territorial control. The Catholic Church has not been a mere spectator, but a historical intermediary that has skillfully woven networks of social containment where the State has deserted. However, this mediation has crossed the line ...

Intermarium of Silence

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 Intermarium of Silence Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero Jean Meyer writes about Andrea Ricardi's work in Confabulario of El Universal (May 3, 2026). The review of Pius XII and his role during the Holocaust, while attempting to nuance the image of the pontiff, fails to avoid oversimplifying a much more complex reality: the structural ambiguity and lack of a clear and consistent stance on the part of the Catholic High Hierarchy regarding totalitarian regimes. It even calls into question the vast body of Jewish historiography on the Holocaust, the German people, Eastern Europe, and the role of Catholic nationalism. The historical trajectory of the Intermarium Project, which seeks to consolidate an anti-communist bloc and, in many cases, aligns with the interests of the Church, reveals that this ambiguity was not an isolated incident, but a deliberate strategy that has endured over time. The Church, in its eagerness to maintain its power and authority, has shown itself willing to coll...

Political Science as Cosa Nostra

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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

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 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...