Mexico

Photo: Alycia Fung on Pexels Luis Rubio “The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak,” affirms Eric Berkowitz* in an extraordinary study on censorship. For nearly a century, the post-Revolutionary Mexican government suppressed freedom of expression, engaged in all sorts of efforts to censure the media, controlled the conversation, and …

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Image: Gearstd on iStock Luis Rubio The dearth of statesmen in the world, argued Napoleon, is due to the complexity inherent in the function: “to get the power you need to display absolute pettiness. To exercise power, you need to show true greatness.” Nearly three years after he assumed the presidency, it is evident that …

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Photo: Benjamín Flores on Proceso.com.mx Luis Rubio The art of governing, says David Konzevik, is the art of managing the gap between the expectations that the citizenry entertains and the day-to-day realities. Mexico is a living example of the enormous breach between both factors and the incapacity of its governments to bridge it. The question …

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Image: Evgeny Gromov on iStock Luis Rubio An old proverb has it that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Something like this happened to Mexico when successive electoral reforms were negotiated. All of them were conceived by political actors who wanted to lead Mexico towards political stability (especially those from 1958 to …

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Image: dntPHOTOGRAPHY on iStock Luis Rubio President López Obrador came to power with the clear idea that the reforms approved from the year 1982 would have to be repelled. In his mind, Mexico’s problems started with those reforms, which is why they must be reverted. From the beginning of his administration, the president has neutralized …

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