Casi no se habló de este aniversario hace unos días. La masacre de la Plaza Tiananmen. Siempre hay que hacerlo. Y que no los engañen: este no fue un episodio aislado en la historia de China. Un lapsus autoritario de un sólo día. Esa represión ocurrió en todo el país y se repitió varias veces. Supimos de esta porque, en ese momento, la prensa extranjera estaba presente porque Mikhail Gorbachev estaba visitando al heredero de Mao, Deng Xiaoping. Eso es el Partido Comunista Chino. Mantenimiento del monopolio del poder, por encima de todo. Por eso ahí el socialismo no cayó, porque fue mantenido a punta de pistola.

Estados Unidos va por otros dos gobernadores mexicanos por supuestos vínculos con el narco: Alfonso Durazo, de Sonora, y Américo Villarreal de Tamaulipas. Todos los caminos llevan a Andrés Manuel López Obrador, el ex presidente de México al que -durante su presidencia pasada- Trump llamó su "amigo". Estas revelaciones dificultan la estrategia de Claudia Sheinbaum de decirle a sus bases que se enfrentan a Donald Trump, mientras al mismo tiempo evitan siquiera mencionarlo para no hacerlo enojar.

Sorprendió la victoria del candidato presidencial de derecha Abelardo de la Espriella en Colombia. La mayoría colocaba al izquierdista Iván Cepeda a la cabeza. Una señal alentadora de que lanzarle dinero a la gente (como hizo Gustavo Petro) no siempre garantiza el voto.

SEN. KELLY: I've spent 15 years working with Russian cosmonauts. Took me 5 years to understand what motivated them. Number one, appearance that they were in charge of something. Two, who to blame when something goes wrong. Three, what to steal today. Only four, mission success. I think as Ukrainians, as Americans, as Brits, we're often motivated by mission success. You want organization you work for to be successful, you want your country to be successful, you want British Army to be successful, I want US Navy to be successful, I want NASA to be successful. That wasn't my experience with Russian cosmonauts I worked with. I'm talking about dozens of people that I knew well, what motivated them when they went to work every day. At the top of the list was that they really cared about the appearance that they were in charge of something, not mission success. Now, whether they were really actually in charge of it or not didn't matter so much. Mission success wasn't even number two. Number two on the list, I would say, was whether they knew who to blame when something went wrong, like placing the blame. Russians have a position in their Mission Control Center which is called "mistakes officer." When a Russian cosmonaut makes a mistake, they keep track of it and they take money out of their pay. I would say the third thing, even before mission success, was what am I going to steal from my employer today. And we would talk about that. They were very open about this. And apparently there's a saying in Russian that if you didn't steal something at work that day, you did not have a good day. For us, and I think everybody in this room here, mission success is the thing that matters more than anything else. And for the Russians I worked with, it might have been number four on the list. So I actually was not that surprised about their incompetence.