Ricardo Ayala

"Para corromper a un individuo basta con enseñarle a llamar derechos a sus anhelos personales y abusos a los derechos de los demás". G. K. Chesterton

El dato no es la caída. El dato es el momento. La baja en aprobación aparece cuando Washington intensifica presión sobre México: Chihuahua, acusaciones políticas y narrativa de intervención. Cuando cambia la arquitectura regional, también cambian los costos del poder doméstico.

De acuerdo.

"Y en un país de leyes, la pertenencia no se define por una raíz étnica o cultural. Se define por un orden jurídico compartido." Pero no pueden, o no quieren, entenderlo.

Pedro Aspe acaba de decir lo que el gobierno lleva años intentando esconder: México se está endeudando a un ritmo peligroso mientras rescatan a PEMEX, destruyen instituciones y compran popularidad con dinero que no existe. Cuando se pierda la confianza de los mercados no habrá mañanera que salve al peso, al empleo o a las familias mexicanas. El problema ya no es ideológico, es matemático.

The wait is over. @Arsenal are Premier League champions.

Aquí se lee mi escrito de hoy: elegir entre odiar a Cortés (demasiado fácil) o entendernos como mexicanos (demasiado difícil):

Después de esperar 22 años, ¡Otra vez campeones de la premier! Gran equipo, entrenador, jugadores y afición. 👏👏👏👏

🚨🚨🎙️ Wayne Rooney on Arsenal winning the Premier League after 22 years: an emotional speech 🎤 “This team… this team… honestly, I’m actually feeling emotional for them right now. For years people called them soft, fragile, bottlers… every season it was ‘stay humble’, ‘show some mentality’, ‘build some muscle’, ‘they’re not built for the big moments’. 😭 Well… where’s Mr. Mentality now? Where’s the man telling everyone to stay humble now? Where’s the man mocking them with a bottle. I can’t see them 👀 Because Arsenal have gone and done it. After 22 years. And they didn’t do it in an easy season either, they did it in one of the toughest Premier League campaigns I can remember. The pressure, the intensity, the competition… and they still came out on top. If right now, you are still doubting this team then you’ve been left behind, and it’s only a matter of time you will stop doubting them. You have to give credit where it’s due. Mikel Arteta deserves enormous praise because he rebuilt this club step by step and got people believing again. I can already see Arsenal fans becoming the loudest people on earth for the next 20 years… and honestly? Fair enough. They’ve suffered enough. Congratulations to Arsenal Football Club.” 🏆❤️

💯👏👏👏👏

🎶North London forever Whatever the weather These streets are our own And my heart will leave you never My blood will forever Run through the stone🎶

"La disposición intelectual de Sheinbaum es exactamente la contraria: fidelidad sectaria." Lean el artículo de Jesús Silva-Hérzog Márquez.

Reclamar soberanía mientras se protege a personajes señalados desde el exterior por vínculos con el crimen no fortalece al Estado: lo debilita. @lrubiof advierte que la retórica puede funcionar bien hacia adentro, pero frente a Estados Unidos los costos pueden ser enormes. Comenzar de nuevo.

Ahora en la edición impresa dominical, la de mayor circulación del @nytimes, cómo funcionó la complicidad del gobierno de Rubén Rocha Moya con el Cártel de Sinaloa.

Ufff, qué imágenes. Las lágrimas de Antoine Griezmann durante su DESPEDIDA OFICIAL como jugador del Atlético de Madrid. Hoy jugó su último partido en la cancha del Estadio Metropolitano y todos le entregaron. Los aficionados, la gente del club, su entrenador y todos sus compañeros le rindieron un homenaje que lo hizo emocionarse como nunca antes. Intentó contenerse, pero tanto amor, respeto y cariño lo superaron por completo. Se fue durante un par de temporadas al FC Barcelona, pero volvió para confirmar que el Atleti fue, es y siempre será el club de sus amores. POR SIEMPRE LEYENDA ROJIBLANCA.

DÉCIMA Había una dama morada que amaba a los ajolotes y que repartía chayotes para ser agasajada. Y andaba muy motivada confeccionando “utopías” mientras la ciudad vestía de guindas y de morados por ver si así lograría el cargo tan anhelado…

The cemetery sequence through the final credits in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is cinema operating on pure mythic energy. Sergio Leone stretches tension to the absolute limit while Ennio Morricone’s score does half the storytelling on its own.

The ending of Casablanca (1942) has so much effortless cool that it almost feels unfair to every romance that came after it. Bogart turning heartbreak into quiet sacrifice while the movie disappears into fog and friendship is pure old Hollywood magic.

40 years ago today, Val Kilmer walked into his Top Gun audition wearing ugly green shorts. He didn't want the part. He thought the script was silly and tried to bomb the audition by reading his lines flat. They gave him the role anyway. On his own, he invented a whole backstory: Iceman grew up with a father who ignored him, which made him desperate to be perfect at everything. He kept the rivalry with Tom Cruise going off-camera too. The cast took sides. The movie became the biggest film of 1986, made $350 million, and every pilot at every airport for the rest of Kilmer's life would call him Iceman. Then in 2014, throat cancer. The surgery saved his life but took his speaking voice. By 2017 he could only get out a few broken words at a time. Years later, when they started making Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise told the producers "We have to have Val." So the writers gave Iceman the same illness. In the new movie, Iceman is an admiral who's also dying. Most of their big final scene together is just Maverick reading Iceman's words off a computer screen. But Iceman does speak one line out loud. "It's time to let go." That line was made by an AI. A small London company called Sonantic used audio from his old movies to build him a new voice. They had way less to work with than they normally need, so they made over 40 different versions and let Kilmer pick the one that sounded most like him. (Spotify bought Sonantic for around $95 million a few weeks after Maverick came out.) Both Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer had tears in their eyes while filming the scene. The director said it looked like two old friends saying goodbye. Maverick made $1.4 billion. Val Kilmer died of pneumonia on April 1, 2025. He was 65. That one AI-made line was the last thing he ever performed on screen. The actor who didn't want the part, telling Maverick it was okay to let go.

“Un gramo de bondad vale más que una tonelada de buenas intenciones”.

¿Por qué insiste la presidenta en pedirle pruebas a Estados Unidos respecto a Rocha Moya y su gente, si su propio gobierno los investigó y las tiene? (de @peniley_ramirez en @Reforma)