Luis Rubio The old Soviet Union maintained cohesiveness due to the ideological monopoly that the Communist Party exercised during an era in which the government totally controlled access to information. In fact, says David Satter,* “the imaginary world of Marxist–Leninist ideology never really went away …
Luis Rubio In an old medieval tale,* famous in the world of lawyers, a king decides to expropriate a miller’s estate because it impairs the view from his palace. The miller goes to the higher court in Berlin, which rules in his favor and compels …
Luis Rubio As the midterm elections draw closer, Mexico’s broken politics are beginning to take their toll. The independent electoral authority (INE), one of the country’s greatest institutional achievements after decades of fraudulent elections, is under fire by AMLO and his party, which are also undermining the Supreme …
Image: Rawpixel on iStock Luis Rubio The Supreme Court is the only one of the three branches of government that was consciously reformed in Mexico recently (1994) to tie in with the political reality of the 21st century. That conferred on the Court a distinctive character that, however, its members have not wholly assumed. Although presidents …
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 …
Photo: CUARTOSCURO on am.com.mx Angry for his negative results, he rushes laws and regulations unfriendly to domestic and foreign private investment. The government that claims to be in a change of regime and calls itself the Fourth Transformation is drowning amid a heap of negative results, a chaos that will have a long-lasting devastating effect …
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 …
On Thursday, July 30, INEGI released the GDP data for Q2. It was not a surprise that the actual figure is much worse than we anticipated (-14%), as many early indicators show that unemployment, consumption, exports, public spending, tourism, oil revenues as well as IVA, …
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 …
