Luis Rubio The objectives that defined the agenda and electoral proposal of now President López Obrador are THE problems of Mexico: poverty, corruption, inequality, and insufficient growth. The strategies to defeat these wrongs can be argued, but no one can dispute their transcendence in today’s …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce When President López Obrador leaves the Presidency of the Republic, his party-movement called Morena will tend to disappear. That instrument was not created to survive in time but was entrusted with a single objective and purpose: to achieve the presidency with and …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Having turned drug lords into important political players will be, without a doubt, the most cursed inheritance that López Obrador will leave Mexico at the end of his term as President of the Republic. The massacres recently carried out by drug cartels …
Luis Rubio Ideological coherence or political pragmatism: the eternal dilemma of alliances. These last as long as their members continue to find greater benefits in participating and remaining in them than in denouncing them and breaking away. From Marxist theoreticians to the most seasoned political …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The temporary nature of his power is beginning to anguish him. Entering the second, and last, three years of his six-year term, with so few tangible results and so much left to do, has caused him to try to exaggerate his progress …
RESEARCH UPDATE: Mexico ‘BBB’ Foreign Currency And ‘BBB+’ Local Currency Long-Term Ratings Affirmed; Outlook Remains Negative Overview Mexico is poised to close 2021 with a 5.8% rebound in GDP, which leaves a still sizable outputgap coming out of the pandemic-induced recession in an economy that …
Luis Rubio When the government of a country finds itself in financial trouble, it has two possible solutions: it can reduce its excessive expenditures, or it can transfer the problem to the citizenry. The first course incentivizes growth because it ceases diverting resources to socially …
Antonio Navalón Seeing how the big names in national politics run and act; those who are part of the government, the Senate, the Party currently in power, or who are close to the President of the Republic, is something a bit endearing. Between performances and …
Photo: Jill Burrow Luis Rubio At the end of the Cold War, Fukuyama wrote an article entitled “The End of History,” in which he postulated that the world had arrived at a consensus about the way forward. Twenty years later, with wars in the Middle East in vogue, Jennifer Welsh published “The Return of History,” …
Luis Rubio The way the Morena-party government functions, especially with President López Obrador’s early-morning press conferences, reminds me of an old Russian joke. It was about a peasant farmer whose neighbor saves enough to purchase a goat. The peasant asks God to put right this injustice and God answers, asking the peasant what he wants …