Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) released the following statement in reaction to Mexican lawmakers’ approval of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to cut funding and strip authorities …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The case of plagiarist Justice Minister Jazmín Esquivel Mossa refuses to disappear. It is growing and becoming more notorious every day. She is the elephant in the middle of the deliberation room of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). …
Luis Rubio It never was going to be easy for President López Obrador. His rhetoric, obsessions, and resentments entailed a permanent source of conflict, thus of polarization and feuding. Winning an election in those terms implied always rowing against the current. How, under those circumstances, …
Luis Rubio “Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push —in just the right place— it can be tipped.” This is the way that Malcolm Gladwell explains how things change, frequently and suddenly and …
Luis Rubio The great success of President López Obrador is not to be found in an exceptional strategy or ability but in his having discovered an amorphous and untapped electorate that did not feel represented. His mastery of communicating with that part of the population …
Faced with a country in growing crisis, a group of notable Mexicans joined together to call for an end to the accelerated destruction of institutions and to propose an objective image of the country they wish to pass on to new generations. Next Monday, January …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce There is democratic decay when the justice system is used for political domination. It is a resource employed from political strategies emanating from the political polarization that extends to literally worldwide levels. The significant difference from country to country refers to the …
Luis Rubio Perhaps the best paradox of Mexican politics today lies in that the main promoter of the opposition is the president himself, while it applies itself to wasting every opportunity it encounters. Lost in thought and their own labyrinths, the political parties, and their …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The most eloquent sign of the end of the six-year term is when the President’s threats no longer frighten society. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation advanced in an independent position in its relation with the Executive Branch, breaking with …
Luis Rubio The discussion in which the country should be engaging is what comes after this government. Some propose that by returning before 2018, everything would be resolved; others suggest a clean slate to start over. Wherever one finds oneself between these extremes, in 2024, …