Dictionary to decipher a year with many feet and few heads

AIFA. Installation that has little use as an airport, but has been used intensively as a ring. It is one of the best terminals in the world, according to the president who does not use it. It’s a lousy airport, according to thousands of users who don’t use it either.

Bad Bunny. Puerto Rican musician who helped Profeco discover that Ticketmaster abuses her clients in Mexico.

Cryptocurrencies. Digital gold carriage that turned into a pumpkin in 2022.

dinosaurs. Creatures that have found a second wind in our political ecosystem.

Spain. Country that has become the Punching Bag of the morning.

FTX. Fraud of the year, maybe of the decade. Story of a criminal who arrived in shorts and cotton shirts to meetings where he convinced gentlemen in jackets and ties to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a company that was made of air, but with algorithms.

Gasoline. Liquid that may not be worth anything in the world of 2060, but here and now it continues to generate billions of pesos for Pemex and the oil companies that keep a foot in refining.

H2O. Better known as water. Its shortage caused a severe crisis in Monterrey in the middle of the year. He left us a lesson that we will surely forget, until the next emergency arrives.

Inflation. Monster that came out of the cage to the terror of housewives, bankers, businessmen and politicians. Vampire who has not found his Van Helsing.

Justice. Intangible for which Mexicans sigh.

Lithium. Mineral that is key to the production of batteries with which electric cars move. Asset trapped in the Mexican subsoil for which the government has many dreams and some plans.

Migrants. Collective that has become the suffering protagonist of this decade. Change sheet in the Mexico/United States relationship. Merchandise that gives millions to criminal organizations.

Nostradamus. French apothecary who published a book of prophecies in 1555. Must read before starting next year, especially so that they don’t tell us that this gentleman said what he never wrote.

omicron. Variant of the covid that starred in the 2022 episode of the pandemic. Less lethal, but more contagious. She kept face masks, vaccines and vitamin D up to date.

Putin, Vladimir. Villain of the year The misadventures of his invasion of the Ukraine have changed the perception of him. We know that he is not infallible. We don’t forget that he has a nuclear arsenal that is almost as big as his dreams of greatness.

Qatar. Emirate that has turned its immense wealth based on gas production into a vehicle for global influence in the world of sports. He owns Paris SG and the letters from Lionel Messi and Killian Mbappé. He organized the soccer World Cup so successfully that he managed to minimize uncomfortable topics, including the biggest bribery corruption scandal in the European Union.

Recession. Word that is used more times when forecasts for 2023 are made. The question is not whether there will be a recession or not, but when it will arrive and how big it will be, how deep and how long it will last.

sat. Organization in charge of collecting taxes that has shone for its effectiveness in a government where loyalty prevails over results. Key ingredient in the recipe that has made public accounts balance despite zero economic growth.

Trump, Donald. Black beast of American politics. AMLO’s inexplicable friend.

Ukraine. Sovereign State located in Eastern Europe that has an area of ​​603,000 kilometers and a population of 41 million people. In its capital, kyiv, what will later become the Russian Empire was born in the year 882 AD. It is an independent nation since 1991. Victim of a Russian invasion that was scheduled to be short and is about to be 10 months old.

Vaccination. Issue that seemed resolved in Mexico and is now the focus of problems. A matter of budget, but also of organization. It is covid and influenza, the treatments for childhood cancer.

Zelensky, Volodimir. Man no one knew in early January and became person of the year for his leadership in resisting the Russian invasion of his country, Ukraine.

lmgonzalez@eleconomista.com.mx