Saturday, January 3, 2026

Neither Bolívar nor Lincoln

 Reading a Mexican newspaper, just to get the views of neighbors, I ran across this from Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the former president of Mexico: 

Neither Bolívar nor Lincoln would have accepted the United States acting as a global tyranny.

 

No one loves a dictator. No one loves a vigilante either.

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