Derecha / The Right

La derecha en M xico ha dominado los poderes formales y los de facto; ha operado las pol ticas p blicas y las finan - zas de la naci n; se ha apropiado del pensamiento cr tico y de la academia. Y ha sido revoluci n, movimiento, contra - rrevoluci n, legislador, Ejecutivo y Poder Judicial. Ha usado el centro y hasta la izquierda; ha corrompido, comprado y convencido; ha cometido fraudes electorales. Ha manejado sus propios recursos y los recursos de las mayor as como propios. Ha recibido ayuda desde el extranjero y se ha atrin - cherado en el nacionalismo. La derecha es un proyecto pol tico, cultural, econ mico, de gobierno, educativo y est sobre todo lo anterior.

La derecha en M xico, con todos sus matices, intensidades y hasta di - vergencias, es una sola y muy cohesionada: no ha renuncia - do al viejo proyecto conservador de instaurar un gobierno cat lico ni ha dejado de combatir el laicismo, la educaci n sexual y la secularizaci n de la sociedad, pero ha priorizado los grandes intereses econ micos, p blicos y privados, na - cionales y trasnacionales, con una tendencia cada vez m s inclinada hacia la corrupci n.

De eso habla Derecha. Poder, corrupci n y enga o, el ltimo libro de la trilog a de los periodistas lvaro Delgado y Alejandro P ez Varela.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Mexican right has dominated the country's formal and de facto sources of power, running public and financial policy and holding sway over critical thought and academia. It has expressed itself as a revolution, movement and counterrevolution and occupied the legislative, executive and judicial branches. It has used the center and even the left; it has corrupted, bribed and convinced, and has committed electoral fraud. It has treated the nation's resources as its own. It has received aid from abroad and exploited nationalist sentiment. The right is a cultural, economic, government and educational project, but above all a political one.

The Mexican right, in all its nuances, degrees and divisions, is a single and cohesive force. It has not renounced the traditional conservative goal of installing a Catholic government and continues to combat laicism, sex education and the secularization of Mexican society. Its priority, however, has been to protect the country's main public and private economic players, both domestic and transnational, with an increasing bent toward corruption.

These and other themes are addressed in Derecha. Poder, corrupci n y enga o, the latest installment in the three-part series by journalists lvaro Delgado and Alejandro P ez Varela.