Who is in Charge in Mexico?

        An enraged mob attacks a military garrison; the soldiers surrender and hand over their weapons and the military installation to the aggressors. In another part of the country, an army platoon is attacked by residents who do not accept their presence in that area; …

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Mexico’s Broken Politics

Image: Kagenmi on iStock Luis Rubio   “All politics are local,” Tip O’Neil famously quipped. In Mexico, all politics today are about elections and especially about the midterms of June 6. From his inauguration, President López Obrador turned this election into a referendum of himself; in fact, he wanted to be on the ballot by creating a …

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Struck Out

Luis Rubio A tweet at the beginning of the week summed up the moment: “The President prepared more for the march of women than he did for the vaccination.” The extraordinary fence built in the Zócalo betrayed the true perceptions inside the presidential palace, revealing …

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Narratives

Photo: Maria on Pexels Luis Rubio One of the characteristics that define the government is its insistence on the past: in stark contrast with its predecessors, which always promised a better future, the president appears to fervently believe that in the past is found the basis of all that follows. The dispute he has undertaken …

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Economic Policy in times of Coronavirus, two approaches

Economic policy in times of Coronavirus, two approaches         It is interesting to observe in a graph the correlation between the deluge of money released by the Federal Reserve Board since March, and its effect on the S&P 500 index. The moment the funds start to flow, the direction of the curve reverses its course …

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Greenpeace achieved a definitive suspension against the Sener’s energy policy that stops renewable energy

Greenpeace achieved a definitive suspension against the Sener’s energy policy that stops renewable energy The environmental organization and Cemda used the facilities of the CFE’s Tula Thermoelectric Power Plant in their protection to show the contamination produced by generating electricity based on fuel oil The …

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