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It was the great betrayal. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto betrayed millions of his countrymen when he didn’t demand that President Donald Trump apologize for likening Mexican immigrants to criminals and rapists when Trump launched his presidential campaign, nor did he dare tell Trump during a humiliating 2016 news conference in Mexico City that Mexico would not pay for a new border wall. It has been obvious since then that Peña Nieto, an incompetent and cowardly leader, will not defend Mexico when it comes to Trump.

Latin America, Politics

Nicaragua Awakens

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , May 9, 2018 May 10, 2018

There are two things I don’t understand about Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president. The first is why he so wants to be like Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the tyrant he tirelessly fought to overthrow decades ago during the country’s civil war; the second is why he lives in a house that isn’t his.

Mexico, Politics, Society

Horror in Mexico

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018

At what point did we become desensitized to the shocking news that the bodies of three murdered students had been dissolved in acid? When did we stop searching for the 43 missing college students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, who disappeared after being kidnapped? When did it become normal for more than 100,000 people to lose their lives to violence in a six-year presidential term?

Politics, Society, U.S.A.

What We Don’t Talk About

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , February 21, 2018 February 21, 2018

It was supposed to be a day of love. It ended as a day of death.

Opinion, Politics

Dinosaurs, Clinging to Power in Latin America

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , February 14, 2018 February 14, 2018

In Latin America there are a group of presidents — political dinosaurs — who have stuck around for a long …

Politics, U.S.A.

Why Do Trump’s Racist Remarks Still Surprise Us?

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , January 17, 2018 January 17, 2018

President Donald Trump’s most recent racist remarks don’t surprise me. What does surprise me, however, is the fact that it took this long for so many people to accept the fact that the president subscribes to racist ideas.

Opinion, Politics, U.S.A.

2018: The Year of Resistance

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018

Since 2017 was an unbelievable year, a year in which many things that never should have happened actually happened, I believe that 2018 should be the year of resistance.

Mexico, Politics

‘El Dedazo’ Makes a Comeback in Mexico.

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017

As a young man, I was obsessed with the political phenomenon of “el dedazo” in Mexico.

Mexico, Politics

A Fraud Foretold in Mexico

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , July 19, 2017 July 19, 2017

It’s incredible that, almost 30 years after the presidential election of 1988, many “Priistas” (or members of the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI) in Mexico still won’t acknowledge the electoral fraud that occurred that year.

Politics, Technology

Living in the Jungle

By Jorge Ramos Avalos , July 12, 2017 July 12, 2017

These days, almost all of us live in a jungle. And many of us are trapped there by choice — like birds in an open cage who wouldn’t even consider flying away. The particular jungle I’m referring to is, of course, the internet — particularly Twitter, Facebook and all the other apps and platforms that keep us trapped there.