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Mexico: living with insecurity

Mexico has since mid-April 2009 been the unaccustomed centre of global attention. The sourcing of the H1N1 flu virus to the country triggered a national and international health emergency that

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 13 May 2009

Mexico: a state of failure

st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#ieooui) } Mexico is increasingly being characterised as a "failed state" on account of its inability to counter the country's burgeoning problems of drug-trafficking

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 17 Feb 2009

The next American revolution

The United States presidential election on 4 November 2008 will presage the departure of the conservative right from the White House, a process that will culminate in the inauguration of

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 2 Apr 2008

Latin America is in turmoil because it is immersed in a three-track transformation: renewing its leaderships, seeking solutions to ancient problems, and readjusting its relations to the world. Sergio Aguayo

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 17 Dec 2007

The reconquest of America

History chastises arrogance. The United States justified the invasion of Iraq by the defence of democracy as well as of its national interests and its world leadership. Today it is

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 29 Aug 2007

Mexico: a war dispatch

Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, declared a war on organised crime at the beginning of his period in office. Seven months after his inauguration on 1 December 2006, and

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 25 Jun 2007

Mexico: living with drugs

Twenty years and the death or disappearance of tens of thousands were necessary for the Mexican state to seriously consider the challenge launched by organised crime networks that were capable

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 16 Mar 2007

Mexico: on the volcano

Those of us who live in Mexico have had the feeling, for quite some time, of walking on a volcano of political and social conflict that might become active at

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 24 Nov 2006

Mexicos democratic lifeline

All over the world, condemnation of the Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador proliferates over his refusal to concede defeat after the official results of the country's

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 11 Sep 2006

Fraud in Mexico?

Sergio Aguayo Quezada is professor at Mexico's Colegio de Mexico Also by Sergio Aguayo Quezada in openDemocracy: "Mexican democracy in peril" (April 2005) "America'

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 6 Jul 2006

Mexicos turbulent election ride

The spectre of electoral irregularities has reappeared in Mexico and could stain the presidential election of 2 July 2006. The possibilities are so worrisome that Mexico has requested an electoral-observation

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 15 May 2006

Mexico: a banana republic?

Mexico is a country of stark and illuminating contrasts. One of them is increasingly apparent in the campaign for the presidential election due on 2 July 2006: between an urbanised

By Sergio Aguayo Quezada

/ 18 Apr 2006