Category: Articles

Brief History of Mexico (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo   For different reasons, all Latin American countries are now going through a process of very profound change and everything suggests that a new historical period will begin all over the world. So I will try to give a very brief summary of the history of…

Passion and Attitude Written by Alfonso Elizondo   From the perspective of psychology, passion is defined as a strong inclination towards an activity that someone likes and on which he invests time and energy. There are two types of passion and each of them is associated with different results and experiences. Harmonious passion stems from…

USA: Autocracy or Despotism? Written by Alfonso Elizondo Autocracy is the political term to designate those types of governments in which power is concentrated in a single person and which therefore do not allow the participation of other individuals or social groups. Complete power of decision-making and action is concentrated in this person. . Autocracy…

Millennials Written by Alfonso Elizondo   In light of the major conflicts in the world today, led mostly by the generation of so-called baby boomers who were born between 1945 and 1960, as well as the virtual non- participation in political and economic life by Generation X, also called the ‘yuppies’ (1960-1975), I will try…

Modernity, Fashion and Ideology (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo     Since the beginning of the era known as historical modernity, all living societies have needed to maintain a growing or at least constant level of production, in addition to protecting their respective productive forces in order to survive and be sustained. This complex function…

Modernity, Fashion and Ideology (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Due to the fact that the presence of new social, economic and cultural paradigms is increasing in human society today, to the point where fashions are lasting less and less time, I will try to approach this cultural phenomenon from the historical perspective of modernity. Fashion…

United Emirates of America Written by Alfonso Elizondo     In a clear summary of the current global crisis, perhaps the two most notable events would be America’s dramatic withdrawal yesterday, June 1, from the last Paris agreement on climate change reached last December, and the total dysfunctionality of the OAS during its last meeting…

US is bankrupt Written by Alfonso Elizondo It doesn’t matter how much they may try to hide this state of bankruptcy – and that includes the costly, rigged apparatus of public officials that has managed the American state for more than 70 years, such as most of its economists, ( including its Winner of the…

Crime and Justice Written by Alfonso Elizondo In light of the serious global conflicts in the world today, I will attempt to give a brief historical summary of the relationship that has existed between these two elements of human society since the first models of the modern Western state emerged in the Late Middle Ages.…

China Proposes ‘Belt and Road’ Written by Alfonso Elizondo Amid the absurd trends towards restoration of the past in most Western nations, the Chinese Government, led by Xi Jinping, has proposed to the world today a new concept of peaceful global coexistence by means of mutual cooperation and in the search for connectivity in the…

Political Crisis Flares in US Written by Alfonso Elizondo Trump’s sudden decision to fire the FBI Director is causing a serious political crisis in the United States; something like what happened in 1973, when Nixon took action very similar to Trump’s, culminating in the famous Watergate scandal and the president’s subsequent removal from office. In…

France, World Political Leader Written by Alfonso Elizondo     Macron’s indisputable win in the recent French presidential elections is a clear sign that two hundred years after history’s first secular state created by Napoleon I, this nation has once again come to lead the Western world in using representative democracy as a fundamental basis…

Towards Another Model of the State Written by Alfonso Elizondo Because we are currently in the vortex of a final crisis of the model of the Modern State, we cannot see that this political and social institution is no longer working. However, the vast majority of humans think that in some way or another human…

Generation Z or ‘Digital Natives’ Written by Alfonso Elizondo   In order to try to decipher the current enigmatic social, political, economic and cultural phenomenon, I have taken as my point of departure the last four generations in the Western world, starting with the second half of the nineteenth century, given that the previous generations…

Long live France! Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The election in France on Sunday April 22 has shown me the great mistake I made in my previous article, where I predicted that France would leave the European Union as soon as they elected their new President. I mistakenly thought that there was a similarity between…

 Frexit in sight Written by Alfonso Elizondo   In just a couple of months, France will have a new president. According to most experts in French politics, whoever emerges from the four possible candidates – Le Pen, Mélenchon, Macron and Fillon – will do so with very little difference in the votes and will lead…

The True Value of the Earth Written by Alfonso Elizondo   There has been no questioning of the ownership of land obtained through purchase or through legalized or non-legalized military conflicts between the great powers, leading to the acquisition of all the mineral, forest and animal resources that they find. Because of the great global…

The Myths of the West (IV) (USA) Written by Alfonso Elizondo France’s Napoleonic empire lasted a short period of time and very soon she began to lose her European possessions and free labor from her colonies. As a result Napoleon I was removed from his position as emperor and the new French leaders set out…

The Myths of the West (III) (The Enlightenment) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The vast majority of the great intellectuals of our time concur in their view that the elements that really create connections between human beings, in addition to genetics, are the myths that come from religious beliefs, cultural traditions, ethnic inheritance, and those acquired…

The Myths of the West (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo In the previous article on Medieval myths I stopped at the Linbourg brothers of Flemish origin, who were the pioneers in portraying the human figure in the early fourteenth century when images of the human being were prohibited by the religious authorities. By then, a…

The Myths of the West (I) (The Middle Ages) Written by Alfonso Elizondo   In order to try to decipher the great enigma occurring in the nations of the West at the moment, I have turned to some historians and experts in Medieval art to analyze what has happened to Western myths, both the Christian…

Collapse of the West Written by Alfonso Elizondo  There is no doubt that the birth of Western society towards the end of the18th century has been the most important political, social and cultural phenomenon of the modern age, and that it has given birth to the most well-educated, most developed multi-ethnic social group with the…

The Prado Museum  (Madrid) Written  by Alfonso Elizondo Fortunately, Spain’s drastic economic and political decline in the last decade is still not reflected in the Prado Museum, its wonderful cultural and artistic treasure. This museum has not yet experienced the appalling phenomenon occurring in the major museums in Paris, Rome and Florence, where groups of…

The Myths of the West have been exhausted Written by Alfonso Elizondo Based on current geopolitics, everything leads us to think that the myths that created the democratic and republican state have become obsolete visions of the world today that no longer work, and that the vast majority of countries in Western society are rapidly…

Xenophobic Populism in Europe Written by Alfonso Elizondo The unexpected defeat of the populist, xenophobic Right in the Netherlands on March 15, with a voter turnout of 80% – a situation not seen in 30 years – has established a liberal ideological trend towards the political and economic integration of Europe, and it seems that…

Carrión de los Condes Written by Alfonso Elizondo In this small town in the province of Palencia there is a Cluniac monastery that was transferred just a few years ago to a Spanish hotel group by the operators of Spain’s national heritage properties. This monastery has a long history that began in the middle of…

Santillana del Mar Written by Alfonso Elizondo Strolling through this beautiful town just as you enter Asturias you will find perhaps the clearest evidence of the complex coexistence of religious power and the power of the monarch in the Middle Ages. This is something that seems very interesting a millennium later, when once again two…

The New Mythology of the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo   There is still no understanding of the complex social and political phenomenon that has led to the stagnation of the US economy, the large deficits caused by the failure of its wars abroad, the empowerment of big transnational companies in the global management…

The West Has Died Written by Alfonso Elizondo If we consider the myths that originally shaped the ideology of the West right after the French Revolution, it is very likely that they are completely unknown to current post-World War II generations. The reason for this is that a fundamental consequence of the emergence of the…

National independence in oil production Written by José Luis Apodaca   Given the current US President’s plan to tax products imported from Mexico, it is a good idea for us to achieve self-sufficiency in oil refining in the short term in order to reduce crude oil exports and imports of refined products. This would give…