It was unimaginable.
Twenty years ago, it was a beautiful morning. I had gone out jogging and everything seemed to be in its right place.
9/11: A PUNCH TO THE SOUL
THE SUMMER OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Something came out wrong, This was supposed to be the year when we controlled the Coronavirus with vaccines, and this would be a “summer of joy” in the United States.
MY REPLY TO THE PRESIDENT
This past Thursday, August 19, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the following during his morning news conference: “Jorge Ramos came around here to say that my government has the record for the most murders. False. Fortunately.”
OLYMPIC LESSONS
The Olympic Games are over, and I feel it like a personal loss.
AMLO, TYRANTS AND FORMER PRESIDENTS
The fascination with the Cuban dictatorship that so many Latin American politicians, including Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
THE MYSTERY OF THE LATIN TRUMPER
The story has been told so many times we’re no longer sure it’s true. But former President Ronald Reagan is reported to have said this: “Latinos are Republicans.
THE TYRANT OF MANAGUA
Daniel Ortega was crying. It was February of 1990 and the Sandinista National Liberation Front had just lost the presidential election to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of legendary journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.
THE BIG LIE
The 11-year-old girl saw the name of former President Donald Trump on my computer screen and was scared. “What happened with Trump?” she asked me in a loud voice, as though a monster had appeared in a nightmare.
A Mother’s Hug
MEXICO CITY — Because of the pandemic, I hadn’t been able to travel to Mexico since last March. My mother lives there. I hadn’t seen her for more than a year.
LIFE BEFORE THE VACCINE
We all have one or one hundred stories about the pandemic. Mine ends happily, with a Moderna vaccine on my right shoulder.