Uncertainties

Luis Rubio When one reads Kafka’s novels –The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis – there is no way to avoid the sensation of confusion and fascination as one goes through those labyrinths of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, irony, and the ever-present lacerating humor. Whoever looks through the pages of the …

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The Risk and the Opportunity

Luis Rubio The 2024 presidential election promises to be like no other since Mexico began its long, painful, and unfinished transition to democracy. Three factors make this a unique moment: an economy ever more distant from the political cycle, a political structure susceptible to collapse, …

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México Elige, Noviembre 2023

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The Budget of a Despot.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Every budget reveals priorities and concerns; it conceals errors and keeps the skeletons hidden in the closet. Such is the budget for the year 2024 that the Chamber of Deputies has just approved. The fact that the Morenista, Green, and PT majorities …

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Command Baton: the threat of division

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On the day López Obrador received his investiture as constitutional President of Mexico on December 1, 2018, in the Congress of the Union, he went to Mexico City’s Zócalo to receive a baton from Carmen Santiago Alonso, representative of 68 indigenous peoples …

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Antinomy

Luis Rubio Antinomy, a contradiction between two things, both apparently obtained by correct reasoning, such as laws or principles, describes the dilemma of Mexico well, but one which has been systematically sidestepped as if it were not to exist. Instead of facing the problem of …

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On how nature overthrows governments.

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The devastation caused to the coast of Guerrero, to 45 municipalities, and with Acapulco at its epicenter, goes beyond the unimaginable. There are scenes of destruction, collapse, and incredible fragility of structures, buildings, foliage, trees, and even hills and mountains. Everything was …

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Phenomena

Luis Rubio John McCain used to say, “It is always darkest before it turns pitch black.” The future is being built every day through the actions of millions of people, companies, and governments in Mexico and around the world. Everything interacts and complements each other, …

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