José Manuel Suárez Mier* My respected colleague and friend Macario Schettino published an article in which he maintains that the only way workers’ wages can be seriously raised is through increases in the labor force’s productivity that increase the competitiveness of the economy. He cites …
Antonio Navalón There was a time when the world was for real. Currently, it is not that in the age of Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, bullets kill less. Nor is it that viruses are delusional dreams of science fiction creators. Before, the world was a …
Antonio Navalón The America that rules, the one that financially dominates the planet, has a very complicated agenda. The other America, that of the South, has lived amidst the convulsions of populism. From the beginning, there have always been two Americas. From the time of …
José Manuel Suárez Mier** The Mexican government is about to learn of the enormous cost that the serious concessions granted by its negotiator will entail. He agreed to these terms rushed to finalize one of the worst trade agreements in history, in which it capitulated …
Office of the Director of National Intelligence This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds toSection 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 116-260). This report reflects thecollective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providingthe nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that …
Luis Rubio China has become a factor of interminable dispute: will it replace the United States as the next superpower? Is the authoritarianism that characterizes it superior to democracy? Is its apparently uncontainable rate of progress sustainable? All relevant questions. Many more are the attempts …
Antonio Navalón Seen the world as a whole and taking into account the enemy that sooner or later will end up killing us either in the form of pandemics, floods, tsunamis, or the very inability to manage the environment, it could be considered that the …
Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Manuél Suárez Mier* One of the most negative aspects of the new North American Free Trade Agreement was the imposition of raising wages in Mexico by decree and adopting more inflexible labor standards in bargaining between unions and companies. These positions promoted by the unions in Canada and the United …
Image: Karolina Grabowska on Pexels The Acting Editorial Page Editor of the New York Times, Kathleen Kingsbury makes a superb introduction of an Op-Ed by Fu Ying, a government official in China, whom she considers “an important person in China’s government — much more important than her titles convey. She is among the highest-ranking women …
Photo: Kiyoshi Tanno on iStock Antonio Navalón Regardless of who will be elected to sit in the White House next week, from that day on, a political event of special relevance will reshape our closest environment, and that is that the United States is back. Since September 11, 2001, the United States had to pick …